State v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The testimony of the two psychiatrists who testified at the trial differs in some respects, but it was for the jury to resolve whatever conflicts that might have existed in the testimony. The jury did not resolve these conflicts in the defendant’s favor. “In State v. Noble, 142 Mont. 284, 304 , 384 P.2d 504, 514 , we commented on this court’s function in reviewing the jury’s verdict in a criminal matter: * * the weight of the evidence in a criminal matter is for the jury to determine in the first instance. If the circumstances reasonably justify the verdict, this court must assume existence of every fact which the jury could have reasonably deducted from all the evidence to reach its verdict.’ “There was considerable evidence in this case which indicated that the defendant was sane at the time he shot Mr. Henningsen. It was for the jury to weigh the evidence presented which might have indicated that the defendant was insane. In our view the evidence in this case is sufficient to sustain the jury’s verdict.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Steward

2. ““It was a legal defense for the defendant to allege insanity as a bar to his being convicted of the crime charged, but by using this defense defendant was charged with the burden of proving to the jury ‘by a preponderance of the testimony’ that he was in fact insane as required under § 94-201.” (Now 95-503, R.C.M.1947.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Olson