State v. Rand’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “. Prior to stopping medication, he was assigned to clean at least ten rooms, keep them in order, make beds, he was to clean the floor and everything. He was a very good worker, cooperative, nothing wrong with him. Then after his medication was stopped, he started to get too slow in his work performance, and finally he could not do his work in due time. Then, gradually, his mental condition deteriorated. He would not reply to the answers. He will lay day and night on his mattress. He will urinate on the floor. Sometimes he will take food and other times he will not. He will not answer. And his mental condition is very bad. He was a very good patient, cooperative, very good worker when on medication. Without medication he breaks down. (emphasis added) 247 N.E.2d at 346 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Stacy