Massey v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 10 district · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 356 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Fay v. Noia (1963), Carnley v. Cochran (1962)
160 federal appellate · 10 district · 103 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMassey v. Moore (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Betts v. Brady · Smith v. O'Grady · White v. Ragen · Williams v. Kaiser · Wade v. Mayo
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 356 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One might not be insane in the sense of being incapable of standing trial and yet lack the capacity to stand trial without benefit of counsel.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o trial can be fair that leaves the defense to a man who is insane, unaided by counsel, and who by reason of his mental condition stands helpless and alone before the court.”
5 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.