Lee v. Alabama’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 1980
22 federal appellate ·
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 · Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · Davis v. United States · United States v. Acme Process Equipment Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the issue of whether this Court can at the present time conduct an adequate and meaningful hearing on the question of Lee's competency to stand trial on October 27, 1943, under the peculiar facts that have been developed since the remand of this case this Court can and does conclude That a meaningful hearing can be conducted and has now been conducted on that question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Estelle
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.