Hayes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2019
8 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 Brown v. State · Deeb 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to insure that all persons who must defend themselves in the criminal arena are mentally capable of assisting in the conduct of that defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The common-law rule which has long been recognized in Florida is that 'if at any time while [c]riminal proceedings are pending against a person accused of crime, whether before or during or after the trial, the trial court . . . has facts brought to its attention which raise a doubt of the sanity of the Defendant, the question should be settled before further steps are taken.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the defendant's liberty is at stake, and his ability to assist in his own defense may be determinative of the outcome of the revocation hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Donald 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.