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← 367 S.C. 389 - Hughes v. State

Hughes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Drope v. Missouri · Ford v. Wainwright · Washington v. Harper · Riggins v. Nevada · Stenberg v. Carhart

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The first prong is the cognitive prong which can be defined as: whether a convicted defendant can understand the nature of the proceedings, what he or she was tried for, the reason for the punishment, or the nature of the punishment. The second prong is the assistance prong which can be defined as: whether the convicted defendant possesses sufficient capacity or ability to rationally communicate with counsel.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.