Finger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Clark v. Arizona (2006), Pellegrini v. State (2001)
47 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 17
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Morissette v. United States · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Ake v. Oklahoma · Tollett v. Henderson
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [k]now or understand the nature and capacity of his . . . act; or (2) [a]ppreciate that his or her conduct was wrong.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“stress [ed] the need for experts and juries to be correctly advised on the M'Naghten standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While we conclude that neither the United States nor the Nevada Constitutions require that legal insanity be procedurally raised as an affirmative defense or by way of a plea of "not guilty by reason of insanity," both Constitutions prohibit an individual from being convicted of a criminal offense without possessing the requisite criminal intent to commit the crime.”
1 later decision 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.