Rowe v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

32 state decisions

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.

1. “Unfortunately those parts of the insanity statutes providing for the filing of pleas of insane then and insane now—the purpose of which is to determine the responsibility of an accused for his alleged unlawful or criminal acts and his capacity to defend himself at a trial therefor—and especially the effect of a finding of insane now, have not been clearly and certainly defined and delineated. At least two sections of the law have been amended from time to time without clearly expressing in their changed form how one section affects the other or how the amended sections affect other sections of the law that were not changed. As a consequence it is difficult, if not impossible, to state with clarity and precision what the Legislature had in mind when the statutes were enacted. Hence, it would seem peculiarly appropriate for the Legislature to clarify all aspects of the insanity statutes relating to criminal offenses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sibug v. State

2. ““The primary questions posed by this appeal arise out of the acceptance by the trial court of the jury verdict of ‘not guilty of murder in the first degree but guilty of murder in the second degree’ on the issue of guilt or innocence despite the fact that the jury had found on the issues of sanity and insanity that the defendant was insane at the time of trial (‘insane now’) in addition to also finding that he was sane at the time of the offense (‘sane then’).” (First and second emphasis added.) Id. at 297 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dimery v. State

3. “That where any person shall be arrested ... or is charged with any crime, offence or misdemeanor, and who appears to the court, or is alleged to be lunatic or insane, and against whom there is no indictment, it shall be the duty of the [court] to cause a jury ... to be empannelled forthwith, and to charge said jury to inquire whether such person was, at the time of the commission of the act complained of, insane or lunatic, and still is so[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sibug v. State