State v. Lecompte’s Empirical Analysis

1979

Citation profile

cited by 47 later decisions

states following

October 2018

most recently cited

47 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 420 So. 2d 1126 - State v. Graham (1982), State v. Edwards (1982)

47 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Chambers v. Mississippi · Kirby v. Illinois · Washington v. Texas · Patterson v. New York

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

“When a defendant is tried upon a plea of `not guilty', evidence of insanity or mental defect at the time of the offense shall not be admissible.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Edwards · State v. Bourque
“not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 609 So. 2d 269 - State v. Gachot · 466 So. 2d 660 - State v. Necaise
“[B]y offering evidence of mental illness as vitiating intent as an essential element of the crime, the defendant attempts to come through the back door to prove lack of mental responsibility to commit the offense charged. The real danger in permitting psychiatric evidence of mental or emotional disorders short of insanity to negate intent is to practically destroy the M'Naughten rule and to clutter practically every trial with some sort of expert opinion evidence as to whether the defendant possessed the requisite intent to commit the crime charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
e.g. State v. Holmes · 424 So. 2d 226 - State v. Roussel

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.