State v. Waugh’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1989 · most notably State v. Kietzke (1971), State v. Mytych (1972)
2 district · 28 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 Minner v. United States · Boatright v. United States · State v. Violett · State v. Poppenga · State Ex Rel. Barnes v. Behan
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“lunatics, insane persons, and all persons of unsound mind ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Solem · State v. Miller“'to establish insanity as a defense, positive or direct testimony is not required, nor is it necessary to establish this defense beyond a reasonable doubt. It is sufficient if the jury is reasonably satisfied by the weight or preponderance of the testimony that the accused * * * was * * * incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Graves“the burden was on the State to prove that the Defendant was sane at the time of the alleged crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Graves
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.