Genius v. Pepe’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.3d 60 · 1995
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2012
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Commonwealth v. Gould · Gary Leroy Profitt v. George R. Waldron, Warden · Commonwealth v. Genius · Commonwealth v. Genius
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n my opinion, of course, there are many long-standing conditions which are easily verifiable by history or by doctor’s examinations which not only precede a particular act, but which follow it as well. Schizophrenic reaction, of course, is one such. Yet an event which can be pinpointed in time and which is a crime by law can occur in one minute or even in a few seconds and the question is whether that person with a long-standing mental condition can be of sufficiently sound mind at the exact time of the incident as to be called criminally re sponsible or not responsible. It was quite clear that immediately following this crime Mr. Genius was found to be not competent to stand trial, so that we can establish at least immediately following the crime that he was not competent to stand trial. It would be quite easy, and I believe correct, to assume that during the commission of the crime he was also not competent. The very nature of the offense and its rather dramatic and bizarre actions would certainly help to indicate that this was not the action of a competent and responsible person. Finally the report of Dr. Koson makes no mention of voices from which this man stated that he was suffering and he completely eliminates the whole picture of Voodoo from his thinking and, therefore, from any relation to the crime itself. One may or may not believe in Voodoo, but to those who believe, anything is not only possible, but very probable up to and including death and commission of ac”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rosado v. Allen · Genius v. Pepe
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.