Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 497 So. 2d 1338 - Tsavaris v. NCNB NAT. BANK OF FLA. (1986), 719 So. 2d 335 - State v. Rivera (1998)
40 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Burks v. United States · Tibbs v. Florida · 397 So. 2d 1120 - Tibbs v. State · Pinder v. State · Snipes v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the defendant may have the burden of going forward with evidence of self-defense, the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt never shifts from the State, and this standard broadly includes the requirement that the State prove that the defendant did not act in self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Guffey v. State · E.A.B. v. State“A defendant seeking refuge in a claim of self-defense `must have used all reasonable means in his power, consistent with his own safety, to avoid the danger and to avert the necessity of taking human life.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“did what he could to extricate himself from the situation and armed himself for protection. He attempted to retreat from the battle, but [his assailant] pursued him. As defendant retreated he continued to ask [the assailant] to stay away, to break it off, to leave him alone, but [the assailant] continued to stalk him... . Defendant fired a shot into the ground, still retreating and still asking [the assailant] to stay away, but [the assailant] came on relentlessly. The evidence is clear that defendant fired the second and fatal shot because there was no alternative, because [the assailant] had closed in on him and had defendant turned to run, [the assailant] would have been on him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.