State v. Esser’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 162 W. Va. 857 - Morningstar v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co. (1979), United States v. Shapiro (1967)
5 federal appellate · 64 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 Chas Steward Mach Co v. Davis · State v. Lucas · Gregg Cartage & Storage Co. 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘insanity’ in the law means such an abnormal condition of the mind, from any cause, as to render the defendant incapable of understanding the nature and quality of the alleged wrongful act, or incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong with respect to such act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]f the jury finds that the defendant was insane or feeble-minded or that there is reasonable doubt of his sanity or mental responsibility at the time of the commission of the alleged crime, [the jury] shall find the defendant not guilty because insane or feeble-minded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.