Rhay v. White’s Empirical Analysis
385 F.2d 883 · 1967
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Tyler v. Beto (1968), Commonwealth v. Hill (1978)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 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
Relies on Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · 60 Wash. 2d 551 - State v. White · 64 Wash. 2d 15 - In RE WHITE v. Rhay
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The inquiry [by the appellate court] ‘is not why counsel failed to request a competency hearing or why the court failed to hold one on its own initiative, but whether, no less on hindsight than by foresight, there were elements of such indication in the situation as, if proper notice had been taken of them, could present a substantial question of possible doubt as to [the defendant’s] competency to stand trial.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[W]e can see no question as to the right of the District Court here, under Pate v. Robinson, to require that White be afforded the opportunity to have the matter of his' competency to be tried determined in portraying relationship to his trial proceedings, as ought to have been done on the circumstances which were involved. Such a determination is, as in Pate v. Robinson, processively [sic] entitled to be called for here because of the difficulties which would be inherent in now satisfyingly getting at the indications and conditions of the original trial. Among these are the lapse of six years which has occurred since the time of that trial; the fact that the psychiatrists’ examinations and diagnoses as then engaged in had been without any thought or focus on this question as to that trial; and the apparent lack of definite recollection as to conditions and incidents involved as to White, which is demonstrated by the testimony of the trial judge above.” 385 F.2d at 886 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roach v. Bennett“history of chronic mental disturbances, paranoid traits, violent behavioral explosions and previous institutional diagnoses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blazak v. Ricketts
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.