State v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2017
8 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. Whitman · State v. Howell · State v. Anderson · State v. Gowin · State v. Howerton
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The extent to which the defendant is mentally ill; (b) The degree of illness or defect and level of functional impairment; (c) The prognosis for improvement or rehabilitation; (d) The availability of treatment and level of care required; (e) Any risk of danger which the defendant may create for the public, if at large, or the absence of such risk; (f) The capacity of the defendant to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law at the time of the offense charged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Whitehawk · State v. King“(a) A description of the nature of the examination; (b) A diagnosis, evaluation or prognosis of the mental condition of the defendant; (c) An analysis of the degree of the defendant’s illness or defect and level of functional impairment; (d) A consideration of whether treatment is available for the defendant’s mental condition; (e) An analysis of the relative risks and benefits of treatment or non-treatment; (f) A consideration of the risk of danger which the defendant may create for the public if at large.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Whitehawk
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.