Dusky v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
1,601 federal appellate · 182 district · 2,569 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,888 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Pate v. Robinson (1966), Drope v. Missouri (1975)
1,601 federal appellate · 182 district · 2,569 state decisions — followed in 49 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Cited together with Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Strickland v. Washington · Godinez v. Moran · Townsend v. Sain
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 5,888 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding”
399 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.