United States v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
854 F.2d 432 · 1988
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably State v. Roque (2006), Ward v. Hall (2010)
29 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 17 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Addington v. Texas · Blake v. United States · United States v. Springfield · United States v. Lewis
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at the time of the commission of the acts constituting the offense, the defendant, as a result of a severe mental disease or defect, was unable to appreciate the nature and quality or the wrongfulness of his acts.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the evidence would allow a reasonable jury to find that insanity has been shown with convincing clarity.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Blake v. United States, 407 F.2d 908 , 911 (5th Cir. 1969) (en banc). The Blake”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.