State v. Bott’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Brown v. State Automobile & Casualty Underwriters (1980), State v. Flores (1988)
56 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · Leland v. Oregon · State v. DeZeler · State v. Rawland · State v. Mytych
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person having a mental illness or cognitive impairment so as to be incapable of understanding the proceedings or making a defense shall be tried, sentenced, or punished for any crime; but the person shall not be excused from criminal liability except upon proof that at the time of committing the alleged criminal act the person was laboring under such a defect of reason, from one of these causes, as not to know the nature of the act, or that it was wrong.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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“[E]ven if the defendant knew the nature of the act, the defendant did not understand that the act was wrong. * * * The word “wrong” is used in the moral sense and does not simply refer to a violation of a statute. Stated another way, even if the defendant realized that the act violated the law, the defendant is not criminally liable if, because of a defect of reason, the defendant did not. understand that the act was morally wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schleicher 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.