United States v. Eichberg’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.2d 620 · 1971
Citation profile
48
cited by 48 later decisions
4
states following
July 1984
most recently cited
41 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Leland v. Oregon · Davis v. United States · Durham v. United States · Pennsylvania Railroad v. Rychlik
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if our whole approach to judicial review of the jury's determination depends on the theory that the jurors are measuring mental disability in terms of community concepts of blameworthiness, then we have an obligation to tell them that is what they are expected to do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“gravity of an impairment and its relevance to the acts charged are both questions of degree, which can only be resolved with reference to the community's sense of when it is just to hold a man responsible for his act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“evaluate [the defendant's] impairment in light of community standards of blameworthiness, to determine whether the . . . impairment makes it unjust to hold him responsible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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