State v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
March 2020
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on 194 W. Va. 657 - State v. Guthrie · 194 W. Va. 3 - State v. Miller · 163 W. Va. 502 - State v. Atkins · 196 W. Va. 208 - State Ex Rel. Cooper v. Caperton · 163 W. Va. 40 - State v. Burton
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant in a criminal case raises the issue of insanity, the test of his responsibility for his act is whether, at the time of the commission of the act, it was accused to lack the capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his act or to conform his act to the requirements of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect the person lacked substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his or her conduct or conform his or her conduct to the requirements of law.”
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.