United States v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
325 F.2d 283 · 1963
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2000
9 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4244 · 18 U.S.C. § 4246 · 18 U.S.C. § 4247
Relies on Greenwood v. United States · Higgins 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 4244 — Abridged, this provision directs inquiry upon the mental competency of an accused after arrest and prior to sentence to stand trial, upon the appearance of reasonable grounds for doubt of his competency. § 4246 — Procedure upon finding of mental incompetency “Whenever the trial court shall determine in accordance with sections 4244 * * * of this title that an accused is or was mentally incompetent, the court may commit the accused to the custody of the Attorney General or his authorized representative, until the accused shall be mentally competent to stand trial or until the pending charges against him are disposed of according to law. And if the court after hearing as provided in the preceding sections 4244 * * * shall determine that the conditions specified in the following section 4247 exist, the commitment shall be governed by section 4248 as herein provided”. § 4247 — The conditions referred to in § 4246 as contained in § 4247 warranting commitment are, as pertinent here, “ * * * the prisoner is insane or mentally incompetent, and that if released he will probably endanger the safety of the officers, the property, or other interests of the United States, * * * »> § 4248 — This section, as referred to in § 4246 and as presently material, is as follows: “Termination of custody by release or transfer “Whenever a person shall be committed pursuant to section 4247 of this title, his commitment shall run until the sanity or mental competency of the person shall be ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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