Berry v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The intersection of voluntary intoxication and insanity is murky at best. Certainly, not all chronic alcoholics have destroyed them mental faculties to the point where they suffer from a mental disease as defined in Indiana’s insanity statute. On the other hand, consumption of alcohol prior to committing an offense does not automatically rule out the insanity defense, as the underlying ■cause of a defendant’s behavior could be a mental disease. Ultimately, it is for the trier of fact to determine whether the accused’s conduct was the result of a diseased mind—regardless of the source of the disease—or was the result of voluntary intoxication.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jason L. Bloomfield v. State of Indiana

2. “Given the Defendant’s longstanding and chronic alcoholism coupled with heavy drinking on the weekend preceding the assault on [the morning of the incident], the Court concludes that these symptoms were brought on by the Defendant’s voluntary abuse of alcohol, rather .than the result of Bipolar Disorder or other mental disease or defect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. John W. Thomas v. State of Indiana

3. “where the ingestion of intoxicants, though voluntary, has been abused to. the point that it produced mental disease,” which is referred to as “settled” or”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. John W. Thomas v. State of Indiana