Fralick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1969
13 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 25 Cal. App. 369 - People v. West · People v. Keyes · People v. Geiger · 15 Cal. App. 264 - People v. Kirby · Hull v. Diehl
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be noted that the statute, and decisions thereunder, contemplate that the doubt of the defendant’s sanity may arise either from the court’s own observation or from evidentiary facts presented to the court. When the question is raised by motion, as was done in this ease, the court must weigh and consider all the relevant facts bearing thereon, whether offered to sustain the proposition of insanity or in opposition thereto. If it appear that the effort is made merely for the purpose of avoiding or delaying the trial on the merits, or that defendant is feigning insanity, or if the showing is not from credible sources and substantial, it, in all probability, will fall short of arousing any doubt in the mind of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The question whether a doubt exists is one that addresses itself peculiarly to the sound discretion of the trial court. To it must be presented the reasons for asking that such an inquiry be had, or of its own motion the court may institute the investigation, and to its sound judgment is left the decision of the wisdom of having it. ’ ’”
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.