Hanger v. Raines’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A habeas corpus proceeding is not available to review the question of whether one detained under a sentence entered upon a plea of guilty in a prosecution for the crime of indecent acts towards a minor child under the age of fourteen years, after former conviction of a felony, was insane at the time of the commission of the offense. “The question of insanity at the time of the commission of an offense, as a defense to a criminal prosecution therefor, must be raised at the trial and determined by the jury upon the evidence relative thereto.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reid v. Raines · In re Habeas Corpus of Hanger