98 Wash. 2d 789 - State v. Crenshaw’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably 117 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Lord (1992), 126 Wash. 2d 136 - State v. Brett (1995)
7 federal appellate · 129 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 People v. . Schmidt · People v. Schmidt · 89 Wash. 2d 256 - State v. McDonald · 6 Wash. 2d 696 - State v. Davis · 27 Wash. App. 326 - State v. Crenshaw
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) At the time of the commission of the offense, as a result of mental disease or defect, the mind of the actor was affected to such an extent that: (a) He was unable to perceive the nature and quality of the act with which he is charged; or (b) He was unable to tell right from wrong with reference to the particular act charged.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“her free will has been subsumed by her belief in [a] deific decree”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““[a] mother kills her infant child to whom she has been devotedly attached. She knows the nature and quality of the act; she knows that the law condemns it; but she is inspired by an insane delusion that God has appeared to her and ordained the sacrifice. It seems a mockery to say that, within the meaning of the statute, she knows that the act is wrong.” People v. Schmidt, 216 N.Y. 324 , 110 N.E. 945 (1915).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.