State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1955
6 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.
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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counsel relies upon the elementary principle that an insane person shall not be put to trial for his life or liberty, and now contends that, if he can show the defendant was insane at the time of the trial, his liberty, subject of course to incarceration for present insanity, can be obtained by order of the court. The case of State ex rel. Mackintosh v. Superior Court, 45 Wash. 248, 88 Pac. 207 , is relied on, bnt that case can have no controlling force here, because the application for a commission was made before the trial, and for the further reason that, since that decision was rendered, the legislature has taken notice of the lack of any statute defining a procedure in such cases, and by express enactment has provided for the manner of trying the question of insanity at the time of the trial. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 2174, provides that this may be determined by the jury under a special plea. Succeeding sections point the proper procedure in the event that the jury finds mental irresponsibility at such time. These statutes are ample to protect the rights of a defendant, and the fact that such plea was not interposed warrants us in holding that the question was waived. In our judgment, this holding does no violence to the rule that an insane person shall not be put to trial; for, as we read the statutes, although that fact were proven, it would not operate to discharge the defendant, but only work a continuance until such time as, in the judgment of the prosecuting officers, ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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