Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2013
1 federal appellate · 23 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 Ristaino v. Ross · Ashton v. Anderson · Lovely v. United States · Lawrence v. State · Tewell 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not approve any principle which exempts one from prosecution from all the crimes he commits because he sees fit to compound or multiply them. Such a principle would encourage the compounding and viciousness of the criminal acts.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““Because Alsteen admitted having sexual intercourse with [the complainant], the only issue was whether [the complainant] consented to the act. Evidence of Alsteen’s prior acts has no probative value on the issue of [the complainant’s] consent. Consent is unique to the individual. The fact that one woman was raped ... has no tendency to prove that another woman did not consent. Thus the testimony of [the prior victims] was irrelevant and should have been excluded.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State · Hurst v. State“a sex organ of one person and the mouth or anus of another person”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Clark · Riggs v. State
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.