State v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably State v. Holbron (1995), State v. Gutierrez (2007)
26 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Cole v. United States · Pell v. Procunier · PepsiCo, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · United States v. Brawner · United States v. Jackson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 58. Mental abnormality 1. An accused is not criminally responsible if, at the time of the criminal conduct, as a result of mental disease or defect, he either lacked substantial capacity to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law, or lacked substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct. 1-A. In a prosecution for a crime which may be committed intentionally, knowingly or recklessly, where such culpable state of mind is a necessary element, the existence of a reasonable doubt as to such state of mind may be established by evidence of an abnormal condition of mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bridges“In reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence to support a verdict, we give due deference to the jury’s evaluation of the evidence, State v. Flaherty, Me., 394 A.2d 1176, 1177 (1978), resolve all factual questions in favor of the jury’s verdict, State v. Boyer, Me., 392 A.2d 41, 42 (1978), and then “determine whether there was credible evidence from which the jury would be justified in believing beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty.” State v. Flaherty, supra at 1177. State v. Howard, Me., 405 A.2d 206, 213 (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Perfetto“That rule requires the proponent of the document to produce the custodian of the record, “or other qualified witness,” to testify that the offered document was “kept in the course of a regular conducted business,” and that it was the “regular practice of that business to make [such a document].” No such testimony was introduced at trial, an omission fatal to the document’s admissibility as a business record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stinson
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.