State v. Behler’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1985
12 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 State v. Ramirez · State v. Larkins · 16 Okla. Crim. 238 - Chambers v. State · Madsen v. Hutchison · State v. Baker
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“held to a full, strict accountability for his conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Insanity, as the word is used in these instructions, means such a diseased and deranged condition of the mental faculties of a person as to render him incapable of knowing the nature and quality of his act and of distinguishing between right and wrong in relation to the act with which he is charged. “The test of accountability is this: Did the party have sufficient mental capacity to appreciate the character and quality of the act? Did he know and understand that it was a violation of the rights of another, and in itself wrong? If he had the capacity thus to appreciate the character and to comprehend the probable or possible con sequences of his act, he was sane under the law, and is responsible to the law for the act thus committed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Iverson“The court then held the confessions obtained by third degree methods were inadmissible . . . .”
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.