Cunningham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably 551 So. 2d 1094 - Bui v. State (1988), 429 So. 2d 1146 - Hopkins v. State (1983)
37 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.
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. State · Knight v. State · Smith v. Smith · Boyle v. State · George v. State
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.
“Thus, where the whole evidence does not satisfy the minds of the jury that the accused is insane at the time of the commission of the crime with which he is charged, the jury should convict the defendant, notwithstanding that the medical witnesses were of the opinion that such person was insane.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Janezic v. State · Dunaway v. State“"Insanity is an affirmative defense which must be proven by the defendant to the reasonable satisfaction of the jury and the burden of proof of that issue never shifts to the state, but remains on the defendant throughout the trial."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“conduct and demeanor immediately after the crime provided a reasonable inference of sanity.”
6 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.