State v. Legendre’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2018
20 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 398 So. 2d 1049 - State v. Jones · 424 So. 2d 1009 - State v. Quebedeaux · 414 So. 2d 306 - State v. Fuller · State v. Quebedeaux
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a condition which most people of common intelligence can understand; it is considered subjective in nature and susceptible to interpretation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[did] not absolve defendant of criminal responsibility for his actions, but [did] tend to excuse or explain his behavior. The court found that that factor should have been weighed in sentencing.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen persons with recognized, diagnosed mental illnesses are convicted of crimes, that condition should be considered to mitigate the type and length of sentence imposed on the offender, even if he has been ruled legally sane.”
3 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.