Royal v. Settle’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2000
2 federal appellate · 1 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 Greenwood v. United States · Greenwood v. United States · United States v. Greenwood
Most-quoted passages
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““The procedure provided by Chapter 313, Title 18 U.S.C., respecting mental defectives, contemplates that after arrest and before trial a temporary commitment may be made of a mental defective under Sections 4244 and 4246 of said Chapter, for such reasonable period as the Court may deem necessary to determine whether an accused is ‘mentally competent to stand trial or until the pending charges against him are disposed of according to law.’ Such commitment is one of a temporary character. If, after such temporary commitment, it is found that accused is insane or so mentally incompetent that he will not be able to stand trial on the charges pending against him, then seemingly another hearing should be held in the committing court to determine whether the pending charges against such an accused should be further prosecuted, or whether the accused is so ‘insane or mentally incompetent * * * that if released he will probably endanger the safety of the officers, the property, or other interests of the United States, and that suitable arrangements for the custody and care of the prisoner are not otherwise available.’ Section 4247, Title 18 U.S.C. “At such hearing, if the Court should make a finding to the latter effect, then a commitment may be made of the accused as provided in Section 4248, Title 18 U.S.C. * * * “The procedure in respect to that situation was considered by this Court, in United States v. Greenwood, 125 F.Supp. 777 , and commitment made accordingly, which was sustai”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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