State v. Brown

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “cruel and unusual” has a settled common-law meaning and is not unconstitutionally vague as used in child abuse statutes
• direct proof of the required mental state is seldom available and such intent is usually inferred from circumstantial evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

118 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Schaal
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1991-04-09· cited 122×
• State v. Letica
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2011-12-20· cited 80×
• State v. Hopkins
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1985-04-02· cited 76×
• State v. Mahurin
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1990-11-20· cited 70×
• State v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1991-01-09· cited 69×
• State Ex Rel. Webster v. Lehndorff Geneva, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1988-02-17· cited 69×
• State v. Naucke
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1992-04-21· cited 54×
• State v. Young
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1985-09-10· cited 47×
• State v. Shaw
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1993-02-23· cited 36×
• State v. Wilkins
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1987-09-15· cited 34×
• State v. Applewhite
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1989-05-23· cited 31×
• State v. Self
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2005-02-15· cited 31×
• State v. Riggs
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1999-10-05· cited 29×
• State v. Williams
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1990-01-02· cited 29×
• Ferguson Police Officers Ass'n v. City of Ferguson
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1984-04-17· cited 29×
• State v. Stokely
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1992-11-24· cited 29×
• State v. Johnson
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1989-02-28· cited 28×
• State v. Butler
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2000-03-21· cited 25×
• State v. O'DELL
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1984-12-04· cited 24×
• State v. Brown
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2012-03-13· cited 24×

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Grayned v. City of Rockford
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 4,586×
• Broadrick v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-25· cited 4,338×
• Connally v. General Construction Co.
  Supreme Court· 1926-01-04· cited 3,272×
• United States v. Powell
  Supreme Court· 1975-12-09· cited 550×
• State v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1981-11-10· cited 198×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-04-26· cited 186×
• State Ex Rel. Williams v. Marsh
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1982-01-12· cited 136×
• Bowers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-07-13· cited 103×
• State v. Strickland
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1980-12-15· cited 100×
• State v. Olinghouse
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1980-05-13· cited 83×
• State v. Garrett
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1982-02-09· cited 82×
• State v. Eaton
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1973-12-10· cited 71×
• Matter of Trapp
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1980-01-15· cited 68×
• Prokopf v. Whaley
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1980-01-15· cited 62×
• State v. Killory
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1976-06-30· cited 61×
• State v. Story
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-02-23· cited 59×
• City of Parma v. Record Revolution, No. 6, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-17· cited 56×
• State v. Downs
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1980-02-11· cited 55×
• Hunter v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1977-03-03· cited 54×
• State v. Prier
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1982-06-08· cited 48×