State v. Wilcox’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably State v. Taylor (1997), State v. Cooey (1989)
16 federal appellate · 109 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Woodson v. North Carolina · Beck v. Alabama
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'he lacked the mental capacity to form the specific mental state required for a particular crime or degree of crime.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he ameliorative argument loses much of its force, however, in jurisdictions that have abandoned or expanded upon the narrow M'Naghten standard.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dickerson · State v. Young“"It takes no great expertise for jurors to determine whether an accused was `"so intoxicated as to be mentally unable to intend anything (unconscious),"' ... whereas the ability to assimilate and apply the finely differentiated psychiatric concepts associated with diminished capacity demands a sophistication (or as critics would maintain a sophistic bent) that jurors (and officers of the court) ordinarily have not developed. We are convinced as was the Bethea court, that these `significant evidentiary distinctions' preclude treating diminished capacity and voluntary intoxication as functional equivalents for purposes of partial exculpation from criminal responsibility."”
2 later decisions 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.