State v. Wilner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 13 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * It is universally recognized that, except perhaps in cases of total loss of reason, insanity does not always exhibit itself in the language or acts of the insane. And it may well be that the jury believed, for want of the instruction refused, that they might assume the prisoner’s sanity, at the time of the homicide, from the circumstances accompanying and immediately preceding it, without giving any effect to the evidence of her previous delusion. That evidence, as we read it in the bill of exceptions, appears to us so convincing as to make it difficult to account for the verdict of guilty in any other way.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Oregon v. Garver

2. ““Although sanity is presumed to be the normal state of the human mind, when insanity is once proved to exist, it is presumed to exist until the presumption is overcome by contrary or repelling evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hogan v. State

3. ““The instruction was refused. Some such instruction was clearly right and pertinent to- the case; and the refusal to give it was error sufficient to reverse judgment on the verdict.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hogan v. State