State v. Donahue’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably United States v. Brawner (1972), State v. Spigarolo (1989)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 71 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 State v. Smith · State v. Smith · State v. Wade · State v. Simborski · Andersen 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . you may find murder in the first degree here only if you determine that the accused had mind enough and will enough to form a specific intent to choose his course after reflection and consideration, and to form Ms purpose and put it into action, and mind enough and will power enough and reasoning power enough to Mil Brenda Doucette and carry out that plan. If you find that at the time of committing the alleged act of Mlling Brenda Doucette, the accused was incapable of conceiving and carrying into execution a deliberate plan to Mil or was mentally incapable of intent or premeditation, or was beyond the power of self-control, then you may not find the accused grnlty of murder in the first degree. . . . Insanity is a good defense for any act amounting to crime if committed by a sane person. The law humanely absolves from responsibility a man whose mental condition does not reach the legal standard of sanity, and the law as clearly as it can defines tHs legal standard, and I am going to read it to you. I will read to you the standard of sanity wMch our law has adopted and defined, and you will note that some of the phrases wMch have been discussed in the court room in the development of the trial are absent from that definition. For instance, the words insanity, psychopatMc, psycMatry and psychology do not appear in tHs definition I am about to give you. Some of the other words or phrases used by the medical experts, such as personality disorder, emotional instability and”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davies
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.