Lebron v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

53 federal appellate · 5 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The statute does not provide for a framing of issue or a receiving of evidence on the question of cause for belief, so as to allow the court to weigh other facts against the grounds set out in the motion. And no intent to allow the court to engage in such a preliminary weighing of facts can be implied, for the language of the section is that ‘Upon such a motion * * * the court shall cause the accused * * * to be examined * * Indeed, for a court to undertake to resolve whether the elements of ‘reasonable cause to believe’ impress as being preponderant or nonpreponderant in a particular situation, and to refuse on the basis of such a relative balancing to have a psychiatric examination made of the accused, would be for the court to obliquely pass upon the question of the accused’s competency to stand trial or properly to assist in his own defense, and to make such an indirect consideration take the place of the examination, hearing and specific finding for which the statute provides.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lewellyng v. United States · Fajeriak v. State

2. ““If your Honor please, at this time it has occurred to us as counsel for these people, for these defendants, there is probably something mentally wrong with them. “We are asking the Court at this time to have these people examined by psychiatrists other than those who Mr. Rover (the United States Attorney) had examine them. Because of the conversation, the testimony on the witness stand, and what the testimony was, their lack of remorse, their peculiar attitude towards this entire situation, that I am firmly convinced there is a strong probability that these people are mentally unstable.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Wilkins

3. ““We do not mean to say a motion under § 4244 must be couched in the exact language of the statute; but it is insufficient unless its recital approximates the meaning of the statutory language. Cf. Perry v. United States, 1952, 90 U.S.App.D.C. 186 , 195 F.2d 37 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Wilkins