7 Haw. App. 402 - State v. Nizam’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
3
states following
September 2008
most recently cited
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chambers v. Mississippi · Rock v. Arkansas · United States v. Nobles · State v. Murphy · State v. O'DANIEL
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a prosecution for murder in the first and second degrees it is a defense, which reduces the offense to manslaughter, that the defendant was, at the time he [or she] caused the death of the other person, under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance for which there is a reasonable explanation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Moore“[Section] 704-402 (1985) delineates the affirmative defense of physical or mental disease, disorder or defect excluding responsibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Uyesugi
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.