State v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably State v. Lamb (1972), State v. Latham & York (1962)
32 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. Eye · State v. Mowry · State v. Nixon · State v. Moore · State v. Arnold
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court: The new Code of Kansas provides that the Court may instruct from time to time during the trial if he deems it advisable. Ordinarily and formerly, instructions were only given at the close of the case after all the evidence was in; but in this particular case I’m going to deem to advise on one facet of it at this time in as much as the question of insanity has arisen. “Dr. George, you might pay attention to this instruction too because it will certainly guide your testimony. “This instruction goes as to what the legal definition of insanity is in the State of Kansas in criminal cases. It’s different than just regular probate insanity or civil insanity. “Insanity, to constitute a legal defense to the charge of a crime, means that the defendant is laboring under such a defective reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act he is doing, or if he did know it, that he did not know that it was wrong. “Basically, that is the test in Kansas. There is another part to the instruction I’ll give later. “Do you understand that definition, Doctor? “The Witness: Yes, I do.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Coltharp
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.