United States v. Weston’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2016
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 4241 · 18 U.S.C. § 4247
Relies on Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Estelle v. Smith · Godinez v. Moran
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Webster correctly asserts that the court lacked statutory authority to order the psychiatric exam, a district court possesses inherent powers “reasonably useful to achieve justice,” including certain powers over the administration of civil and criminal discovery. In fact, Fed.R.Crim.P. 57(b) provides that where no law or rule is directly applicable, “[a] judge may regulate practice in any manner consistent with federal law, these rules, and local rules of the district.” The existence of the federal rules does not preempt this power, if the rules do not exclude the exercise of the specific putative inherent power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ontrary to the defendant's assertion, there are no statutory restrictions to the number of examinations the Court may order.” Id. Martinez-Haro attempts to distinguish Weston by pointing out that the Government in that case was dissatisfied with the original examination because the examiner failed to discuss the fact that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I}t is the duty of the District Court to make a specific judicial determination of competency to stand trial, rather than accept psychiatric evidence as determinative of this issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gamble 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.