State v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018
14 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 People v. Northcott · People v. Troche · Aszman v. State · People v. Leong Fook · Ingles v. People
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Insanity, to excuse crime, must be such a disease of the mind as dethrones reason and renders the person incapable of understanding the nature, quality and consequences of his act, or of distinguishing between right and wrong in relation to such act. It is not every eccentricity of mind, however well-established, that will excuse the commission of an act otherwise criminal. “A morbid propensity or inclination to commit prohibited acts, existing in the mind of a person who .is not shown to have been incapable of knowing the wrongfnlness of such acts, forms no defense to the prosecution therefor. The test of criminal responsibility is the power to discriminate between right and wrong.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if excessive and long-continued use of intoxicants produces a mental condition of insanity, permanent or intermittent, which insane condition exists when an unlawful act is committed, such insane mental condition may be of a nature that would relieve the person so affected from the consequences of the act that would otherwise be criminal and punishable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smart v. Leeke“The distinction between voluntary immediate intoxication resulting in a mental derangement which does not relieve of responsibility, and settled insanity of a more or less permanent nature which is a defense is generally recognized.”
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.