State v. Forrest’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Baldwin (1993), State v. Joyner (1993)
43 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. Golding · State v. Evans · Hullum v. United States · State v. Vilalastra · State v. Kemp
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defendant must persuade the trier of fact that ... (1) the emotional disturbance is not a mental disease or defect that rises to the level of insanity as defined by the penal code; (2) the defendant was exposed to an extremely unusual and overwhelming state, that is, not mere annoyance or unhappiness; and (3) the defendant had an extreme emotional reaction to it , as a result of which there was a loss of self-control, and reason was overborne by extreme intense feeling, such as passion, anger, distress, grief, excessive agitation or other similar emotions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) [he] committed the offense under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance; and (2) there was a reasonable explanation or excuse for [his] extreme emotional disturbance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n construing [the statute] narrowly, we have assumed that the legislature enacted the statute to accomplish a reasonable and rational result. A broad construction of the statute, taken to its extreme, would arguably bar experts from fully testifying to their diagnoses of a defendant and to their resulting professional opinions, from which the jury could infer the defendant’s state of mind at the time of a particular act. Jurors would thus be left without adequate expert assistance in making an informed decision upon the ultimate issue of the defendant’s mental state, the precise issue expressly reserved to them by [the statute].”
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.