Rees v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
206 federal appellate · 12 district · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 543 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Whitmore v. Arkansas (1990), Godinez v. Moran (1993)
206 federal appellate · 12 district · 115 state decisions — followed in 21 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
reviewedRees v. Peyton (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boire v. Greyhound Corp. · Rees v. Commonwealth · Rees v. Peyton · Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham
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 543 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether he has capacity to appreciate his position and make a rational choice with respect to continuing or abandoning further litigation or on the other hand whether he is suffering from a mental disease, disorder, or defect which may substantially affect his capacity in the premises.”
53 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whether or not Rees shall be allowed in these circumstances to withdraw his certiorari petition is a question which is ultimately the responsibility of this Court to determine * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“make a judicial determination as to Rees' mental competence and render a report on the matter to [the Supreme Court].”
2 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.