Clark v. Beto’s Empirical Analysis
359 F.2d 554 · 1966
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably United States v. Knohl (1967), Robert v. Bruce v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections (1973)
29 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Pate v. Robinson · Braunfeld v. Gibbons · V. P. Serodino, Inc. v. United States · Bishop v. United States · Sanders v. Allen
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.
“[W]here facts indicating the defendant was insane at the time of his trial come to light only after the completion of that trial, and this issue was neither consciously waived by counsel nor determined adversely to the defendant at the time of trial, the trial and the judgment resulting therefrom are subject to collateral attack.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trial and conviction of a person mentally and physically incapable of making a defense violates certain immutable principles of justice which inhere in the very idea of a free government.”
1 later decision 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.