7 Md. App. 575 - Greenleaf v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A defendant is not responsible for criminal conduct and shall be found insane at the time of the commission of the alleged crime if, at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect, he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law. As used in this section, the terms ‘mental disease or defect’ do not include an abnormality manifested only by repeated criminal or otherwise antisocial conduct.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 14 Md. App. 538 - Young v. State

2. ““We think that the existence of a ‘mental disease or defect’ 2 is first and foremost a medical problem. * * * But an opinion as to the ultimate fact, whether or not the accused is insane under the test prescribed by § 9 (a), in fairness both to the accused and the State, should be reached by a medical diagnosis. Thus the opinion must be made by a medically trained psychiatrist in order to be admissible in evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 18 Md. App. 632 - Colbert v. State

3. “* * * [W]hether or not the accused is insane under the test prescribed by Section 9(a) [now § 25(a) of Art. 59] — must be reached by a medical diagnosis and must therefore be made by medically trained psychiatrists to be admissible in evidence. * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 18 Md. App. 578 - List v. State