Crocker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Godinez v. Moran (1993), Smith v. Smith (1950)
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When any person is indicted or informed against for any ■offense if the court shall be informed, in any manner, that there is a probability that such accused person is, at the time of his trial, insane and thereby incapacitated to act for himself, the court shall, in a summary manner, make inquisition thereof by a jury or otherwise as it deems most proper. . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steward v. State“At common law, if a person, after committing a crime, became insane, he was not arraigned during his insanity, but was remitted to prison until such incapacity was removed.”
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.