Long v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 1980 · most notably O'Dell v. State (1904), Grace v. Hopper (1975)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 35 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems to us both absurd and cruel to send a sane man to the lunatic asylum, and we can not think such was the intent of the law makers. There may perhaps be a propriety in so confining one subject to fits of insanity. Such a person may fairly be considered dangerous to the community; but that one perfectly sane at the time of the trial, free from the insanity which has once made him irresponsible for his acts, should be condemned by the law to live' among madmen, is to us so preposterous that we can not think such was the intention of the legislature.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. State
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.