Pouncey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Hoey v. State (1988), Treece v. State (1988)
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 Langworthy v. State · Supervisor of Assessments v. Southgate Harbor · 14 Md. App. 538 - Young v. State · American Legion, Clopper Michael Post 10, Inc. 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.
“[A] finding of insanity is not tantamount to an absence of mens rea, or inconsistent with a general intent to commit a crime. In drowning her child, the [defendant] specifically intended to kill him, and while her successful insanity defense means that she is not criminally responsible for her conduct, that determination merely relieves her of liability for punishment under the criminal law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ford v. Ford · Hoey v. State“(1) To appreciate the criminality of that conduct; or (2) To conform that conduct to the requirements of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ford v. Ford · Hoey v. State“that if she is burdened by a record of conviction of first degree murder, she will in a practical sense have been found responsible for her conduct; that the stigma of such a “conviction” punishes her for her conduct in that, among other things, it prohibits her from voting, from serving on a jury, from acquiring licenses or contracts, and also inhibits future employment opportunities since prospective employers will ascertain that she was found guilty of first degree murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ford v. Ford
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.