People v. Booth’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2014
7 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The bedrock of the statute is that if a defendant charged with a crime gives notice of intention to claim the defense of insanity, then a jury or judge may find the defendant “guilty but mentally .ill” if the following facts are found beyond a reasonable doubt: (1) That defendant is guilty of a criminal offense, (2) That defendant was mentally ill at the time of the offense, and (3) That defendant was not legally insane at the time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is apparent that the Legislature’s object in creating this new verdict was to assure supervised mental health treatment and care for those persons convicted under the laws of our state who are found to be suffering from mental illness, in the humane hope of restoring their mental health and possibly thereby deterring any future criminal conduct on their part.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.