State v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Ellison (2006), State v. Davolt (2004)
2 district · 35 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 Walton v. Arizona · Lewis v. Jeffers · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · State v. Bible · Roos v. Bancfirst of Sulphur
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he defendant's capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law was significantly impaired, but not so impaired as to constitute a defense to prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hoskins
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.