State v. Vickers’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably State v. Simpson (1985), State v. Weaver (1982)
9 federal appellate · 74 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · McMann v. Richardson · North Carolina v. Butler · Maryland v. Marzullo
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether defendant, at the time of the alleged act, was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease or deficiency of mind, as to be incapable of knowing the nature and quality of his act, or if he does know this, was by reason of such a defect of reason incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong in relation to such act.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the cabin or cottage burned was unoccupied at the time of the fire but was occupied by the owner at frequent intervals, particularly during hunting season, and was intended to serve as the owner's home following his retirement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'mere temporary absence of the occupants from a house, so that at the time of its burning there was no human being in it, will not affect the character of the building as a "dwelling”
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.