Bieber v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023
17 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Cryts v. French · McDougall v. North Carolina · 94 Ill. 2d 378 - People v. Free · Massachusetts v. Podgurski Et Al.
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.
“(a) A person who is so diseased or defective in mind at the time of the commission of the act as to be incapable of distinguishing right from wrong with respect to that act ... or (b) A person who suffered from a condition of mind caused by mental disease or defect that prevented the person from forming a culpable mental state that is an essential element of a crime charged....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Voth · People v. Grenier“as an immediate result, and one who drinks or takes drugs knowing that he or she may be”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(there is no principled basis to distinguish between the short-term and long-term effects of voluntary intoxication by punishing the first and exeus-ing the second.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Grenier
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.