327 So. 2d 301 - State v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Maggio v. Fulford (1983), State v. Narcisse (1983)
2 federal appellate · 94 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Faretta v. California · Bruton v. United States · Spinelli 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has reasonable ground to doubt the defendant's mental capacity to proceed.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mental incapacity to proceed exists when, as a result of mental disease or defect, a defendant presently lacks the capacity to understand the proceedings against him or to assist in his defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not a perfunctory matter or a ministerial duty of the trial court and is not guaranteed to every accused in every case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.