State v. Hardung’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1993 · most notably 2 Wash. App. 348 - McCutcheon v. Brownfield (1970), Lovvorn v. Johnston (1941)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 Sahlinger v. People · State v. Way · Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Barnard v. State · Frey v. Calhoun Circuit Judge
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is true we have a statute which declares that a person of unsound mind is not competent to testify (Rem. Comp. Stat., § 1213) [RCW 5.60.050], the statute itself offers no definition of the term ‘unsound mind.’ Nevertheless, we think it must include those persons only who are commonly called insane; that is to say, those suffering from some derangement of the mind rendering them incapable of distinguishing right from wrong. It cannot include within its terms- the mere ignorant or uneducated, nor those who are incapable of receiving all of the impressions within the comprehension of those more commonly gifted. In other words, the statutory term refers to those who are without comprehension at all, not to those whose comprehension is merely limited.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Often, this is the only character of evidence that the state can produce, and, if the rule were otherwise, many criminals would go unpunished.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moore“a defendant may conduct his entire defense without counsel if he so chooses”
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.