81 Wash. 2d 124 - State v. Quinlivan’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2006
12 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 50 Wash. 2d 740 - State v. Collins · People v. Polk · 1 Cal. 3d 609 - People v. Bandhauer · State v. Berry · 72 Wash. 2d 786 - City of Seattle v. Hill
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.
“Contrary to this implication in the instructions, sympathy is an appropriate factor in the jury’s consideration of the penalty issue. On remand it should be made clear to the jury (1) that considerations of sympathy are to be excluded only from that portion of the verdict relating to guilt or innocence; and (2) that sympathy may properly be considered as a factor in the determination of the penalty issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A majority of this court has consistently held that the so-called M’Naghten rule is the proper test for insanity in this state. State v. Reece, 79 Wn.2d 453 , 486 P.2d 1088 (1971); Seattle v. Hill, 72 Wn.2d 786 , 435 P.2d 692 (1967); State v. Collins, 50 Wn.2d 740 , 314 P.2d 660 (1957). Under this test the jury is properly instructed to ask itself the following question: Is the mind of the accused so diseased or affected at the time of the commission of the act charged that he is unable to perceive the moral qualities of the act with which he is charged and is unable to tell right from wrong with reference to the particular acts charged. [State v. Reece, supra at 454.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not only that which is directly connected with the crimes charged, but also the evidence bearing upon defendant's background, rearing, environment and family history.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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