Brewer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Cartwright v. Maynard (1987), Brewer v. Reynolds (1995)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Ake v. Oklahoma · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Oregon v. Kennedy · United States v. Dinitz
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If defense is one of insanity at the time of commission of the act, defendant is presumed to be sane and has the burden to come forward with sufficient evidence to raise a reasonable doubt as to his sanity. The State in [a] criminal prosecution may rely upon the presumption that the defendant is sane; however, when the defendant produces sufficient evidence to raise a reasonable doubt of his sanity, then the State has the burden of proving sanity beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State“... The person is presumed sane until a reasonable doubt of his sanity is raised by competent evidence. Reasonable doubt has to exist before the State even has a burden of proving to you beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was sane at the time of commission of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kiser v. State“did not have a strategic advantage over Brewer that would create a risk of error in the proceeding absent a defense witness to counter-balance the State’s expert testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brewer v. Reynolds
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.