United States v. Torniero’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
October 1996
most recently cited
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2314
Relies on Davis v. United States · Jones v. United States · American Tobacco Co. v. Green · McDonald v. United States · Blake 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the allegation of disease or defect ... amount[s] to an allegation that at the time of the acts with which he has been charged the defendant's mental state was such that the jury could not comprehend it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“voluminous [and] probably contradictory testimony couched in the technical jargons of the various mental health professions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“occurs when the state of the defendant's mind is such that it is alienated from ordinary human experience.”
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.