People v. Kerrigan’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably 39 Cal. 3d 765 - People v. Skinner (1985), 20 Cal. 4th 1178 - NBC Subsidiary (KNBC-TV), Inc. v. Superior Court (1999)
6 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 12 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 People v. Swafford
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“support his contention that 'moral insanity is now as well understood by medico- jurists, and almost as well established by judicial recognition, as the intellectual form,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In our courts of law there is no such doctrine established or recognized as moral insanity, distinguished from mental derangement, as an excuse for crime.”
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.