State v. Bock’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 197 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Johnson (2006), State v. Berry (1995)
1 federal appellate · 197 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 Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · 123 Ohio St. 237 - State v. Smith · State v. Nutter
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]ncompetency must not be equated with mere mental or emotional instability or even with outright insanity. A defendant may be emotionally disturbed or even psychotic and still be capable of understanding the charges against him and of assisting his counsel.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he failure to hold a competency hearing is harmless error where the defendant proceeds to participate in the trial, offers his own testimony in defense and is subject to cross-examination, and the record fails to reveal sufficient indicia of incompetency.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he crux of Robinson * * * is not that a defendant is automatically entitled to a hearing on the competency issue once that issue is raised. Rather, Robinson stands for the proposition that the right to a hearing on the issue of incompetency rises to constitutional proportions only when the record contains sufficient indicia of incompetency * * * such that a formal inquiry into the defendant's competency is necessary to protect his right to a fair trial.”
4 later decisions 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.