Singleton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Fearance v. Scott (1995), State v. Forrester (2001)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Addington v. Texas · Vitek v. Jones · Ford v. Wainwright · Washington v. Harper · Riggins v. Nevada
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The first prong is the cognitive prong which can be defined as: whether a convicted defendant can understand the nature of the proceedings, what he or she was tried for, the reason for the punishment, or the nature of the punishment. The second prong is the assistance prong which can be defined as: whether the convicted defendant possesses sufficient capacity or ability to rationally communicate with counsel.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hughes v. State · State v. Motts“: 79 Singleton is completely unaware that he is capable of dying in the electric chair. His reliance on protective”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hughes v. State · Walton v. Johnson“and his inability to respond to his counsel's questions with anything other than a yes-no are indicative of Singleton's failure to understand either the reason or the nature of his punishment. 80 Accord Musselwhite v. State, 215 Miss. 363, 60 So.2d 807, 809 (1952) (holding that petitioner was incompetent to be executed because his catatonic schizophrenia rendered him unable to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Walton v. Johnson
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.