Walton v. Angelone’s Empirical Analysis
321 F.3d 442 · 2003
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably United States v. Moussaoui (2010), In Re Commitment of Fisher (2005)
10 federal appellate · 4 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Slack v. McDaniel · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if a defendant is mentally competent at the beginning of the trial, the trial court must continually be alert for changes which would suggest that he is no longer competent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Competency claims can raise issues of both procedural and substantive due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] defendant raising a substantive claim of incompetency is entitled to no presumption of incompetency and must demonstrate his incompetency by a preponderance of the evidence. Not every manifestation of mental illness demonstrates 'incompetence to stand trial; rather, the evidence must indicate a present inability to assist counsel or understand the charges. Similarly, neither low intelligence, mental deficiency, nor bizarre, volatile, and irrational behavior can be equated with mental incompetence to stand trial.”
1 later decision 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.