Laney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Lundgren v. Mitchell (2006), 671 So. 2d 647 - Peterson v. State (1996)
1 federal appellate · 57 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 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State · 441 So. 2d 84 - Edwards v. State · 421 So. 2d 1216 - Laney v. State · 412 So. 2d 1187 - Emanuel 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the accused was laboring under such defect of reason from disease of the mind as (1) not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or (2) if he did know it, that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“are to be read together and if the jury is fully and fairly instructed by other instructions the refusal of any similar instruction does not constitute reversal error.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen the trial court has made a finding that the evidence does not show a probability that the defendant is incapable of making a rational defense, the Court will not overturn that finding unless the finding was manifestly against the overwhelming weight of the evidence.”
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.