Singleton v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Singleton makes no claim that he is currently incompetent to be executed. Accordingly, the district court’s ruling on that stands unchallenged and is thus affirmed. Our ruling on this issue does not foreclose Singleton from raising a future claim of incompetence based upon conditions different from those that led to the district court’s ruling in the present case, subject, of course, to whatever procedural objections the State may raise to such a claim.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Singleton v. Norris

2. “In 1993, when an execution date was set, [Singleton] filed a petition alleging, inter alia, that he was incompetent to be executed and that if he appeared to be competent, it was as a result of involuntary medication. At a hearing before Judge Eisele in 1995, however, Singleton testified that he was voluntarily taking antipsychotic medication.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Singleton v. Norris

3. “The district court found that Singleton, who was voluntarily taking antipsychotic medication, was competent.... Although he raises the possibility that he may in the future have a claim of incompetency, Singleton concedes that he currently has no support for such a claim in view of his voluntary ingestion of anti-psychotic medication.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Singleton v. Norris