State v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably State v. Anderson (1985), State v. Usee (2011)
38 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 Schwartz v. Minneapolis Suburban Bus Co. · State v. DeZeler · State v. Hoskins · State v. Parker · City of Minneapolis v. Altimus
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.
“In determining whether or not a defendant has met the burden imposed on him by statute to prove absence of guilt because of insanity, the factfinder may give credence to competent evidence that relates to cognition, volition, and capacity to control behavior. The basic question of fact remains, however, whether in the light of this burden and this evidence the defendant was laboring under such a defect of reason as not to know “the nature of his act, or that it was wrong.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jolley“No person shall be tried, sentenced, or punished for any crime while mentally ill or mentally deficient so as to be incapable of understanding the proceedings or making a defense; but he shall not be excused from criminal liability except upon proof that at the time of committing the alleged criminal act he was laboring under such a defect of reason, from one of these causes, as not to know the nature of his act or that it was wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bouwman“[Ejvidence regarding capacity to control behavior may be admitted, but, as we stated in State v. Wendler, 312 Minn. 432, 434 , 252 N.W.2d 266, 268 (1977), “the standard for a legal finding of insanity was not altered” by Rawland . We hold that an instruction on capacity to control behavior need not be given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. LaTourelle
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.