339 So. 2d 1382 - Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

cited by 24 later decisions

states following

February 2015

most recently cited

24 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2015

24 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 United States v. Freeman · 337 So. 2d 1242 - Jackson v. State · McGinnis v. State · Robinson v. State · 325 So. 2d 113 - Stevenson 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"... Though the M'Naghten Rule may not be a perfect means to test criminal responsibility, as this Court (including this writer) has said before, it is the safest of the rules proposed. M'Naghten better protects society's needs than the American Law Institute's proposed rule...." (p. 1385.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 658 So. 2d 847 - Westbrook v. State · 421 So. 2d 1216 - Laney v. State
“When any person shall be indicted for an offense and acquitted on the ground of insanity the jury rendering the verdict shall state therein such ground and whether the accused has since been restored to his reason, and whether he is dangerous to the community. And if the jury certify that such person is still insane and dangerous the judge shall order him to be conveyed to and confined in one of the state asylums for the insane.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Sanders v. State
“This 18-year-old defendant was charged with the commission of a horrible and heinous crime, the crime of murdering an 87-year-old woman by stabbing her five times while committing the crime of rape. Her home had been broken into and her completely nude body was found early the next day in a pool of blood. The defendant could suffer death for this crime....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 388 So. 2d 143 - Hill v. State

How this case has been treated — in progress

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