43 Colo. App. 488 - People v. Beasley’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably People v. Hardin (1980), Commonwealth v. McCann (1983)
27 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 Stull v. People · 39 Colo. App. 360 - Russell v. First Am. Mtg. Co. · 39 Colo. App. 70 - Good v. AB Chance Co. · Phillips v. People · Hughley v. People
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.
“Where the acts upon which the charges are based are separated by time and location, a finding as to defendant’s sanity at the time of one act is not conclusive as to his sanity at the time of another act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Martin“a jury must be instructed concerning the possible psychiatric treatment and commitment of the defendant after the return of a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.”
1 later decision 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.