Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Saldivar v. State (1998), Rogers v. State (2003)
48 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 McKinney v. Baldwin · Boykin v. State · McFarland v. State · Williams v. Texas · Adanandus 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant is entitled to an affirmative defensive instruction on every issue raised by the evidence regardless of whether it is strong, feeble, unim-peached, or contradicted, and even if the trial court is of the opinion that the testimony is not entitled to belief. The defendant’s testimony alone may be sufficient to raise a defensive theory requiring a charge.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person commits an offense only if he voluntarily engages in conduct, including an act, an omission, or possession.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“This rule is designed to insure that the jury, not the judge, will decide the relative credibility of the evidence, (citation omitted). When a judge refuses to give an instruction on a defensive issue because the evidence supporting it is weak or unbelievable, he effectively substitutes his judgment on the weight of the evidence for that of the jury, (citation omitted). The weight of the evidence in support of an instruction is immaterial.”
3 later decisions 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.