Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Olsen v. State (2003), Miller v. State (1995)
1 federal appellate · 30 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 Gibson v. United States · 51 Cal. 3d 294 - People v. Jones · United States v. Myers · 115 Wash. 2d 60 - State v. Camarillo · State v. Ralls
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“designed to inform the jury about the applicable law so that the jury may apply that law to its own findings with respect to the material facts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Jones v. State“(a) Any actor who inflicts sexual intrusion on a victim commits sexual assault in the second degree if, under circumstances not constituting sexual assault in the first degree: (v) At the time of the commission of the act the victim is less than twelve (12) years of age and the actor is at least four (4) years older than the victim; * * *.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The general rule in reviewing questions involving instructions is that the trial judge is afforded latitude to tailor the instructions to the facts of the case, and reversible error will not be found as long as the instructions when viewed as a whole and in the context of the entire trial fairly and adequately cover the issues.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. State · Olsen 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.