White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2016
10 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 Fallen v. United States · Lefkowitz v. Newsome · Dufour v. Mississippi · 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State · 475 So. 2d 1136 - Johnson 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the test for insanity is whether the defendant was unable to distinguish right from wrong at the time the act was committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“contains twelve numbered entries and several claims, none of which addresses the denial of a continuance. Thus, this issue is procedurally barred. III. WHETHER THE JURY'S VERDICT THAT CRAWFORD WAS SANE WAS AGAINST THE OVERWHELMING WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE? ¶ 27. Crawford argues the overwhelming weight of the evidence supported his insanity defense. In Mississippi, the determination of insanity at the time of the offense is controlled by the M'Naghten test;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crawford v. State“[t]here is a presumption that an accused is sane and, therefore, the burden is initially on the accused to introduce evidence creating a reasonable doubt as to his sanity at the time of the act. However, once the accused has overcome this initial burden, it is the burden of the State to present sufficient evidence to prove the accused's sanity beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision 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.