Dixon v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2010
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 24 U.S.C. § 211
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““4214. Menial ineompeieney after nrrest and before trial. Whenever after arrost and prior to the imposition oí sentence or prior to the expiration of any period of probation the United States Attorney has reasonable cause to beliove that a person charged with an offense against the United States may be presenliy insane or otherwise so mentally incompetent as to be unable to understand the proceedings against him or properly to assist in his own defense, he shall file a motion for a judicial deter-munition of such mental competency of tile accused, setting forth the ground for such belief with the trial court in which proceedings are pending. Upon such a motion or upon a similar motion in behalf of the accused, or upon its own motion, the court shall cause the accused, whether or not previously admitted to bail, to be examined as to his mental condition by at least one qualified psychiatrist, who shall report to the court, For the purpose of the examination the court may order the accused committed for such reasonable period as the court may determine to a suitable hospital or other facility to be designated by the court. If the report of the psychiatrist indicates a slate of present insanity or such mental incompeteney in the accuse.d, the court shall hold a hearing-, upon due notice, at which evidence as to the mental condition of the accused may be submitted, including that of the reporting psychiatrist, and make a finding with re-sped: thereto. No statement made by the acc”
1 later decision 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.