State v. Moeller’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Wade v. United States (1970), State v. Mytych (1972)
3 federal appellate · 30 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 64 Cal. 2d 310 - People v. Conley · Durham v. United States · People v. Wells · People v. Gorshen · United States v. Freeman
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While we agree that the M'Naghten rule should have been discarded with the horse and buggy, it is part of our statutory law and as such, as long as we adhere to the rule that the legislature can prescribe rules of evidence, we must adhere to the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Uyesugi“defendant is not criminally responsible for his acts if he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of the person's conduct or to conform the person's conduct to the requirements of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Uyesugi“as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Uyesugi
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.