State v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1994
15 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 State v. Minton · Oborn v. State · Reeves v. State · State v. Holland · Hempton 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is well established that in criminal cases, when insanity is relied on as a defense, an adjudication declaring the defendant to be an insane person made prior to the alleged offense or subsequent to the alleged offense for which the defendant is being tried is not conclusive of the insanity of the defendant at the time of the inquisition, and is admissible in evidence for the consideration of the jury on the issue as to whether or not he was insane when the offense was committed, provided the time of the adjudication bears such relation to the person's condition of mind at the time of the crime as to be worthy of consideration in respect thereto. [Citations omitted.] 244 N.C., at 378 , 93 S.E.2d, at 423 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bundridge“To determine the issue as to whether the defendant was insane at the time of the alleged commission of the offense[,] evidence tending to show the mental condition of the accused both before and after the commission of the act, as well as at the time of the act charged, is competent, provided the inquiry bears such relation to the person’s condition of mind at the time of the alleged crime as to be worthy of consideration in respect thereto. It would be impracticable to limit the evidence to such condition at the exact time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ingle“Is the defendant insane and without sufficient mental capacity to undertake his defense or to receive sentence in this case? Answer: Yes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bundridge
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.