In re Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 29 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The presumption being that general insanity once shown to exist still continues, unless of a temporary sort, like the delirium of drunkenness or a fever, the burden of proof to establish a lucid interval or mental restoration rests upon the party who asserts it.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Criez v. Sunset Motor Co. · 21 Wash. 2d 1 - Soderquist v. Keller

2. ““Has the petitioner been deprived of due process of law in the premises? He was tried before a jury, to whom he himself submitted the issue that he was insane when the crime was committed. He was permitted to fully introduce his evidence upon that subject, and the jury were instructed as to their duty in the premises. The verdict returned was in his favor upon the issue which he tendered, and he was therefore accorded due process of law and the right of trial by jury upon that subject.” (p. 164.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Clark

3. “[I]nasmuch as it was a fact established after a full hearing that the petitioner was insane at the time of the [crime], the presumption is that the same condition continues, and the burden is upon him to show to the contrary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 143 Wash. 2d 242 - State v. Platt