Jenkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 1983 · most notably 28 Md. App. 640 - Evans v. State (1975), 2 Md. App. 80 - Boone v. State (1967)
4 district · 29 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 Escobedo v. Illinois · Head v. New Mexico Board of Examiners in Optometry · Dyer v. Murray · Mefford and Blackburn v. State · Bean 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) a man is presumed to have been sane and responsible for his acts at the time he committed a crime until there is adduced proof of his inability ‘to distinguish between right and wrong and understand the nature and consequences of his acts as applied to himself’ (the M’Naghten rule) sufficient to raise a doubt as to his sanity as defined in the minds of reasonable men (‘Evidence of some undefined mental disorder or instability is insufficient proof to overcome the presumption of sanity’), and (2) when there has been offered proof of insanity so defined sufficient to overcome the initial presumption of the sanity of the accused the State must prove sanity, as well as the other elements of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.