State v. Bethea’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably State v. Troupe (1996), State v. DePastino (1994)
41 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 Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · Balistrieri v. United States · Hayes v. Lockhart · In re Disbarment of Schaefer · State v. Whelan
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The record reveals that the court's observation at trial was that the defendant was not mentally ill and found that there was no apparent need to order the readministration of the psychiatric medication by prison officials. The observations and findings of the trial court must be accorded great weight. The court had ample first hand knowledge of the defendant on which to make an informed judgment and its denial of the motion for a psychiatric exam was not an abuse of discretion." Bethea at 22, 23 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"It appears to the court that such person is mentally ill and dangerous to himself or others."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.