United States v. Knott’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 1119 · 1990
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably 585 So. 2d 225 - Bass v. State (1991), United States v. Garcia (1996)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 17
Relies on Santoni v. United States · Nicholas v. United States · National Farmers Union Insurance v. Crow Tribe of Indians · Domby v. United States · PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, he must establish that he suffered from a serious mental disease or defect at the time of the crime. Second, his mental disease or defect must have prevented him from appreciating the nature and quality or wrongfulness of his acts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunaway v. State · Ware v. State“mental disease or defect must be beyond the control of the defendant if it is to vitiate his responsibility for the crime committed.... Insanity that is in any part due to a defendant's voluntary intoxication is not beyond his control.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Voluntary intoxication may not be considered in determining an insanity defense.”
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.