State v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Yagow v. United States · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Stokes v. United States · State v. Roy · Huber v. Danning
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant is guilty but mentally ill if, at the time of the commission of the act constituting the offense, he had the capacity to distinguish right from wrong or to recognize his act as being wrong as defined in [s]ection 17-24-10(A), 3 but because of mental disease or defect he lacked sufficient capacity to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Curry“[t]he law to be charged is determined from the facts presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shands
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.