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right and wrong test

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 343 U.S. 790 - Leland v. Oregon · 1952Most cited · 1,984 citing opinions

Knowledge of right and wrong is the exclusive test of criminal responsibility in a majority of American jurisdictions.

How often courts cite the case defining “right and wrong test”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “right and wrong test” — 1,983 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.