State v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 1973 · most notably State v. Bartmess (1898), State v. Megorden (1907)
26 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 Commonwealth v. Coe · Hendrickson v. . the People · People v. Pico · Stout v. State · Story 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is within the discretion of the trial court to admit evidence upon the question of the sanity of the person accused, at the time of committing an offense, and of his acts, conduct, and habits at a subsequent time which would fairly justify any inference of insanity relating back to the time of the alleged offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roselair““When the commission of the act charged as a crime is proven, and the defense sought to be established is the insanity of the defendant, the same must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grieco“* * * it is within the discretion of the trial court to say when the witness has shown himself competent and qualified to express an opinion upon the subject * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dyer
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.