State v. Beam’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably 47 Cal. 3d 1047 - People v. Harris (1989), Lankford v. Idaho (1991)
6 federal appellate · 32 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Bruton v. United States · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Spaziano v. Florida · Herrmann v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although eliminating affirmative defenses based upon the defendant’s metal condition, the statute does not relieve the state of its burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt every fact necessary to constitute the crime charged.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial court has the discretion to admit into evidence photographs of the victim in a homicide case as an aid to the jury in arriving at a fair understanding of the evidence, as proof of the corpus delecti, the extent of the injury, the condition of the body, and for their bearing on the question of the degree and atrociousness of the crime. The fact that the photographs depict the actual body of the victim and the wounds inflicted on her and may tend to excite the emotions of the jury is not a basis for excluding them.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Mental condition shall not be a defense to any charge of criminal conduct. (c) Nothing herein is intended to prevent the admission of expert evidence on the issues of mens rea or any state of mind which is an element of the offense, subject to the rules of evidence.”
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.