Pugh v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2018
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
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 State v. Barfield · Walker v. Illinois · Burks v. Texas · 39 Cal. 3d 765 - People v. Skinner · 441 So. 2d 84 - Edwards v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the other hand, if, after considering all of the evidence in the case, you entertain a reasonable doubt as to whether the defendant was mentally competent to understand the nature and consequences of his act, to distinguish between right and wrong as applied to said act, and to know that it was wrong, then in that event it is your duty to resolve the doubt in the defendant’s favor and acquit him on the ground of insanity, and state that. fact in your verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State“A person is insane when that person is suffering from such a disability of reason or disease of the mind that he/she does not know that his/her acts or omissions are wrong and is unable to distinguish right from wrong with respect to his/her acts or omissions. A person is also insane when that person is suffering from such a disability of reason or disease of the mind that he/she does not understand the nature and consequences of his/her acts or omissions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Medlock v. State“The first portion of M’Naghten relates to an accused who is psychotic to an extreme degree. It assumes an accused who, because of mental disease, did not know the nature and quality of his act; he simply did not know what he was doing ... The latter portion of M’Naghten relates to an accused who knew the nature and quality of his act. He knew what he was doing; ... however, because of mental disease, he did not know that what he was doing was wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State
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.