140 So. 2d 348 - Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2000
11 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 Davis v. State · 116 So. 2d 626 - Piccott v. State · Crews v. State · 73 So. 2d 694 - McVeigh v. State · 69 So. 2d 344 - Brock v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It has long been recognized that sanity is the normal condition of man and that, when charged with a crime, he is presumed to be sane; the mere fact that he has committed a crime is not in itself sufficient to overcome the presumption. Davis v. State, 1902, 44 Fla. 32 , 32 So. 822 . Thus, in a prosecution for homicide, the defendant has the burden of establishing his plea of insanity by demonstrating that he was legally insane at the time the homicide was committed. McVeigh v. State, Fla. 1954, 73 So.2d 694 . The State of Florida has long adhered to the `right and wrong' test for the determination of the sanity of a criminal defendant; the test is also referred to as the M'Naghten Rule. See Piccott v. State, Fla. 1959, 116 So.2d 626 ; Davis v. State, supra. This jurisdiction does nor recognize that phase of insanity denominated under the title of `irresistible impulse' or `moral insanity' as a defense to a criminal prosecution. The only issue presented under the defense of legal insanity is whether the accused, at the time of the unlawful act alleged to have been committed by him, had a sufficient degree of reason to know that he was doing an act that was wrong. Griffin v. State, Fla.App. 1957, 96 So.2d 424 ; Brock v. State, Fla. 1954, 69 So.2d 344 ; Crews v. State, 1940, 143 Fla. 263 , 196 So. 590 ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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