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Howze v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis

716 F.2d 396 · 1983

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
December 1986
most recently cited

5 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · Rideout v. United States · Leland v. Oregon

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

  1. “'so long as a jury is instructed that the state has the burden of proving every element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt, there is no due process violation' if the state places the affirmative defense of insanity upon the defendant.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “It is obvious that one may commit a purposeful act not knowing it to be wrong, or commit such a purposeful act, even though the actor knows the act to be wrong, but lacks the ability to refrain from doing it.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “state courts are the ultimate expositors of state law”
    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.