State v. Hatfield’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
November 2016
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rogers v. Hill · 194 W. Va. 740 - State v. Beard · 170 W. Va. 217 - State v. Cheshire · 186 W. Va. 507 - State v. Hatfield · 200 W. Va. 479 - State v. Lockhart
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is axiomatic that the conviction of a legally incompetent defendant or the failure of the trial court to provide an adequate competency determination violates due process by depriving the defendant of his constitutional right to a fair trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.