85 Wash. 2d 414 - Alter v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2013
13 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 Reed v. Reed · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Jackson v. Indiana · McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reasoning [in Brown] appears to be: The State proved the defendant did the criminal act, but he has escaped punishment by proving that he was insane at the time. It is only fair and just that he should receive some punishment-and confinement in a mental institution is appropriate punishment.... I do not find the holding of that case persuasive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“he must decide in advance of prosecution whether the accused is insane or else he must prosecute only”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“substantial likelihood of repeating similar acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.