Pierce v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Tillis v. State (1974), 357 So. 2d 690 - Dixon v. State (1978)
52 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 Pate v. Robinson · Seibold v. State · Lee v. Alabama · Burns v. State · 52 Ala. App. 422 - Pierce v. State
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law is now settled that if sufficient doubt of the defendant’s present mental competency is raised before or during trial, then it is mandatory that there be a judicial hearing to determine his mental competency to stand trial, and that the refusal of the trial court to grant such a hearing is reviewable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tillis 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.