Wood v. Rc Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
790 F.2d 548 · 1986
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably United States v. Hathaway (1986), Austin v. Bell (1997)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Engle v. Isaac · Cupp v. Naughten
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have infected the accused's trial to such a degree as to constitute a clear violation of due process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“id., we stated that: 32 [W]e reject Wood's contention that proof of the insanity defense negates either the voluntariness or the mens rea element of the crimes with which he was charged. If the defense does not bear upon an element of the crime, placing the burden of proof of the defense on the defendant does not violate his due process rights under In Re Winship, Mullaney, or Patterson. 33 Id. at 550. In addition, for determining whether the state has unconstitutionally shifted the burden of proof to the defendant, we explained that,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rhodes v. Brigano“placing the burden of proof of irresistible impulse on [the defendant] violated his due process rights, because one acting under an irresistible impulse necessarily acts without the required mens rea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rhodes v. Brigano
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.