State v. Vas’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
2
states following
September 2001
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Golding · Doerr v. Doerr · Kahn v. Grant · In re Martin-Trigona · Western Farm Credit Bank v. Fobian
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a jury instruction should make clear that evidence of insanity may he relevant to the jury’s determination of whether the State has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that ... the defendant possessed the requisite mental state.... When evidence relating to an affirmative defense also bears on the elements of an offense, the jury must he allowed to consider the evidence for that purpose as well.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is not, however, within our province to overrule or discard the decisions of our Supreme Court,”
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.