State v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he guarantee of equal protection of the laws under Hawai'i and United States Constitutions requires that persons similarly situated with respect to the legitimate purpose of the law receive like treatment. However, “[e]qual protection does not require that all persons be dealt with identically, but it does require that a distinction made have some relevance to the purpose for which the classification is made. In the absence of a suspect classification or an intrusion upon a fundamental constitutional right, the challenged classification must bear some rational relationship to legitimate state purposes.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Child Support Enforcement Agency v. Doe · Child Support Enforcement Agency v. Doe

2. “You must return a verdict of not guilty by reason of physical or mental disease, disorder or defect which excludes criminal responsibility if you find by a preponderance of the evidence, that is, that it is more likely or more probable than not, that, at the time of the charged offense, 1)[ ] Defendant was suffering from a physical or mental disease, disorder, or defect, and 2) that as a result of such physical or mental disease, disorder, or defect, he lacked substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law. If [ ] Defendant has proved both of these elements by a preponderance of the evidence, then you must find [ ] Defendant not guilty of the offense(s). If [ ] Defendant has not proved both of these elements by a preponderance of the evidence, then you must find that this defense does not apply.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Uyesugi

3. “The difference between [insanity acquittees and civil committees] for purposes of burden of proof, is in the extent of possibility and consequence of error. If there is error in a determination of mental illness that results in a civil commitment, a person may be deprived of liberty although he never posed any harm to society. If there is a similar error in confinement of an insanity-acquitted individual, there is not only the fact of harm already done, but the substantial prospect that the same error, ascribing the quality of mental disease to a less extreme deviance, resulted in a legal exculpation where there should have been legal responsibility for antisocial action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Kotis