Pope v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably State v. Bey (1988), Gamble v. State (1987)
2 federal appellate · 150 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Boykin v. Alabama · Hamling v. United States · Sandstrom v. Montana
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, because of the influence of alcohol, drugs, or narcotics, one’s mind becomes so impaired as to render him incapable of forming an intent to do the act charged, or to understand that a certain consequence would likely result from it, he would not be criminally responsible for the act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster v. State“[T]he United States Supreme Court has found no constitutional infirmity in a rule which places the burden upon the defendant to prove his insanity. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State“[a] juror who has made up his mind prior to trial that he will not weigh evidence in mitigation is not impartial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greene v. State
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.