State v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2006
23 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
Relies on Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Patterson v. Medberry · Commonwealth v. Ragone · 20 Ill. 2d 45 - The PEOPLE v. Bender
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]n order for a court to permit a defendant to be tried three things must be found: first, that defendant understands the nature of the charges brought against him; second, that defendant appreciates the purpose and object of the trial proceedings based thereon; and third, that defendant has the mental capacity to assist reasonably and rationally his counsel in preparihg, and putting forth a defense to the criminal charges of which he stands accused. If the answer to all three of the preceding tests is affirmative, then the defendant is mentally capable for purposes of a trial and should be given a timely opportunity to proceed to a trial. When a trial justice in this state has presided over a hearing of this nature and rendered a decision on the defendant’s fitness for trial in compliance with the relevant law on competency set out above, his decision is entitled to great weight and will not be disturbed by us unless it is shown that he clearly abused his discretion in making his determination.” [Citations omitted.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buxton · State v. Peabody““To place a man who is mentally ill in court and require him to fend against the charges of one skilled in prosecution is the mind’s equivalent to putting a man in a boxing ring who has his hands bound behind his back and require him to defend against the fistful onslaughts of one skilled in pugilistic battle. Both situations arouse within us deep revulsions.” State v. Cook, 104 R.I. 442, 447 , 244 A.2d 833, 835 (1968).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buxton
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.