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”
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.