State v. Reyes’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably State v. Norman (1997), State v. Burr (2008)
43 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 Strickland v. Washington · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Cupp v. Naughten · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Indelicato 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“disease or defect which would negate a state of mind which is an element of the offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“diminished capacity is a `failure of proof defense: evidence of defendant's mental illness or defect serves to negate the mens rea element of the crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“error to give Reyes a flawed diminished-capacity jury charge because he had not been entitled to such a charge in the first place. If there was any error in Reyes's jury charge, it was harmless because he received the potential benefit of a charge to which he had not been entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.