Perry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 1989 · most notably Aaron v. State (1960), Parrish v. State (1903)
35 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 Parsons v. State · Gunter v. State · Lowe v. State · Ward v. State · Farrish v. State
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the act is plainly to require the defense of insanity to be tried only under a special plea, to require this plea to be interposed, at the time of arraignment, and to require a special verdict on this issue. This defense can not now be introduced under the plea of 'not guilty,' as it formerly could be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ingles v. People
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.