Hall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Murray v. State (1997), 572 So. 2d 1346 - Nowitzke v. State (1990)
28 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 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Calder v. United States · Johnson v. Florida · Griffin v. Texas · Ferris 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n accused is not criminally responsible if, at the time of the alleged crime, the defendant was by reason of mental infirmity, disease, or defect unable to understand the nature and quality of his act or its consequences or was incapable of distinguishing right from wrong.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reaves v. State · Mathis v. State“any expert testimony ... to be relevant, must concern whether [defendant] (1) was incapable of distinguishing right from wrong (2) as a result of mental infirmity, disease, or defect.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reaves v. State · Hansen v. State“will not be disturbed on appeal absent a clear showing of error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.