Ex Parte Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 1972 · most notably Taylor v. State of Alabama (1948), Seibold v. State (1970)
14 federal appellate · 20 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 Hysler v. State of Florida · Johnson v. Williams · Lee v. State · Hysler v. Florida · Hawie 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Insanity existing at the time of the commission of an alleged criminal offense, when properly pleaded and proven, is a complete defense to an indictment charging that offense. Section 423, Title 15, Code of 1940. But insanity occurring subsequent to the commission of the alleged offense is no answer to an indictment charging that offense, and cannot be made the basis of a plea in bar of the prosecution. Jones v. State, 13 Ala. 153 . But this is not to say that the defendant charged with a criminal offense, and who becomes insane after the commission of the alleged offense cannot suspend or postpone the trial of his case until his sanity has been restored.” (Emphasis supplied)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Seibold v. State · Lee v. Alabama“The substantiality of petitioner's claim is not shown to the satisfaction of this Court, and in the exercise of the discretion vested in the Court in such matters we are clear to the conclusion that permission to file a writ of error coram nobis in the lower court should be, and is, denied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Alabama · Lee v. Alabama“It is further insisted that the attorneys representing petitioner on the trial for the offense charged in the indictment were negligent in failing to insist upon an inquiry into the `present' sanity of the defendant before entering into [the] trial as provided by law. (Presumably 426, Title 15, Code of 1940). 22 " One such inquiry had already been made. It is not made to appear in the petition before us that the defendant became insane since that judgment was rendered. How many times such inquiries a defendant may make we need not now decide. Laying aside the question of whether petitioner is bound by the acts of his attorney (See Mitchell v. State, supra), or whether his negligence is a proper matter of inquiry on a proceeding for writ of error coram nobis, it is sufficient to say that on the record before us, negligence of defendant's counsel, who represented him at the trial of the main case, is not here shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Alabama
How this case has been treated — in progress
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