Overholser v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
288 F.2d 388 · 1961
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1991 · most notably Lynch v. Overholser (1962), Whalem v. United States (1965)
55 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Berger v. United States · Davis v. United States · Tatum v. United States · Carter v. United States · Lake Central Airlines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant may plead not guilty, guilty or, with the consent of the court, nolo contendere. The court may refuse to accept a plea of guilty, and shall not accept such plea or a plea of nolo contendere without first addressing the defendant personally and determining that the plea is made voluntarily with understanding of the nature of the charge and the consequences of the plea. If a defendant refuses to plead or if the court refuses to accept a plea of guilty or if a defendant corporation fails to appear, the court shall enter a plea of not guilty. The court shall not enter a judgment upon a plea of guilty unless it is satisfied that there is a factual basis for the plea.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a defendant who is subjected to trial while mentally incompetent to understand the charges against him and unable to assist in his own defense has not really been tried at all, certainly not in the sense of a `fair' trial, which is the basic element of the due process guaranteed by the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rowe v. State
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.