121 Wash. 2d 347 - State v. Wheaton’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Pellegrini v. State (2001), Amalgamated Transit v. State (2000)
3 federal appellate · 31 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 Frye v. United States · Humble Pipe Line Co. v. Waggonner · Travaglia v. Pennsylvania · Blocker v. United States · 110 Wash. 2d 577 - State v. Rice
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) At the time of the commission of the offense, as a result of mental disease or defect, the mind of the actor was affected to such an extent that: (a) He was unable to perceive the nature and quality of the act with which he is charged; or (b) He was unable to tell right from wrong with reference to the particular act charged. (2) The defense of insanity must be established by a preponderance of the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Klein · State v. Klein“It is not enough to say that [the host personality] was unconscious at the time of the offense. That would matter if the focus should be on the [host] personality .... If the focus here should be on the alter in executive control, as the trial court concluded, the question would be whether [the alter] was conscious at the time of the offense. Thus, the fact that [the host] was not conscious does not help resolve the underlying question, i.e., is it proper to focus on the alter personality?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“to address the legal sanity/insanity inquiry, and specifically ... to determine how to assess persons diagnosed with multiple personalities for insanity.” Id. at 352 . The court concluded the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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