Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 1991 · most notably State v. Mercer (1969), People v. Davis (1965)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 People v. Martin · 82 Okla. Crim. 5 - Bingham v. State · 84 Okla. Crim. 41 - Chapman v. State · Smith v. Commonwealth · 84 Okla. Crim. 176 - Storer 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The state of mind of the accused is the proper subject for expert testimony when the defense is based on a plea of insanity at the time of commission of the act, but it is not a proper subject for expert testimony when the defense is not based on a plea of insanity at the time of commission of the act for which the defendant stands accused."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State““In a criminal prosecution, any legal evidence from which the jury may adduce guilt or innocence is admissible if, when taken with other evidence in the case, its relevancy appears, and the rejection of competent testimony offered by defendant constitutes prejudicial error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brooks v. State“All persons are capable of committing crimes except those belonging to the following classes: * * * ThreeLunatics and insane persons. * * * FivePersons who committed the act charged without being conscious thereof. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Caddell
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.