538 So. 2d 820 - Chestnut v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Mott (1997), 710 So. 2d 1276 - Williams v. State (1996)
3 federal appellate · 63 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 Stafford v. Oklahoma · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Gooding v. United States · Estate of Thornton v. Caldor, Inc. · Fisher v. United States
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [alleged] mental deficiencies are sufficient to meet the definition of insanity, these persons should be acquitted on that ground and treated for their disease. Persons with less serious mental deficiencies should be held accountable for their crimes just as everyone else. If mitigation is appropriate, it may be accomplished through sentencing, but to adopt a rule which creates an opportunity for such persons to obtain immediate freedom to prey on the public once again is unwise.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Easley v. State · State v. Williams“for the purpose of proving either that the accused could not or did not entertain the specific intent or state of mind essential to proof of the offense, in order to determine whether the crime charged, or a lesser degree thereof, was in fact committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. State · Beckman v. State“evidence of voluntary intoxication, or for that matter evidence of any condition relating to the accused's ability to form a specific intent, is relevant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.