Lipscomb v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1960

Citation profile

cited by 42 later decisions

states following

May 2013

most recently cited

42 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Culberson v. State (1979), Stevens v. State (1963)

42 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 Chisley v. State · Breeding v. State · Hazel v. State · Saldiveri v. State · Stansbury v. State

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“a further question then arises, on which there is a division of authority, as to whether the defendant must go forward and prove his insanity by a preponderance of the evidence, or whether the State must then offer proof to establish the defendant's sanity beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Bradford v. State
“"As to the charge of murder in the first degree, we may note that it would make no difference as to guilt under the above statute whether death occurred after the rape had been accomplished or in an attempt to perpetrate it." 223 Md. at 606 , 165 A.2d at 922 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 345 So. 2d 623 - Pickle v. State
“a man is presumed sane until sufficient proof of insanity is introduced to raise a question in the minds of reasonable men as to whether he is or is not sane.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Bradford v. State

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.