State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Filiaggi (1999), State v. Were (2008)
67 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 State v. Thomas · State v. Humphries · 18 Ohio St. 2d 13 - State v. Staten · United States v. Mota · United States v. Hall
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The weight to be given the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses concerning the establishment of the defense of insanity in a criminal proceeding are primarily for the trier of the facts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A plea of not guilty by reason of insanity is an affirmative defense that must be proven by a preponderance of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ireland
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.