State v. Henke’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1990 · most notably 50 Wash. 2d 740 - State v. Collins (1957), 6 Wash. 2d 696 - State v. Davis (1940)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Commonwealth v. Scovern · Jordan v. State · In re Brown · 25 Cal. App. 369 - People v. West · State ex rel. Mackintosh v. Superior Court
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.
““This court has approved that test of insanity with respect to one’s mental condition as of the time of the commission of a crime. State v. Craig, 52 Wash. 66 , 100 Pac. 167 , and State v. Schafer, 156 Wash. 240 , 286 Pac. 833 . See also: I Wharton, Criminal Law (12th ed.), 72, § 52; 16 C. J. 100, § 75.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It will be observed that the relevant statute, Rem. Rev. Stat., § 2175, provides only that in the event of an acquittal shall a special verdict be returned passing upon the question of insanity at the time of the trial.” (p. 191) (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“capable of properly appreciating his peril and of rationally assisting in his own defense”
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.