Armstead v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably United States v. Brawner (1972), Johnson v. State (1982)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 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 Durham v. United States · United States v. Currens · Chisley v. State · Hopt v. People · Bryant 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if [the accused] lacked sufficient mental capacity to commit a crime (in this instance, wilful, deliberate and premeditated murder) as required by the standard set in Spencer , she would be entitled to a general verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, but, on the other hand, if she did have sufficient mental capacity to create criminal responsibility as the test was set forth in Spencer , then she is a responsible agent and must answer for the crime she committed, unless ... the Spencer rule is broadened or modified. [ 227 Md. at 76 , 175 A.2d at 26 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson 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.