State v. Franks’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 404 So. 2d 929 - State v. Bickham (1981), State v. Caston (1985)
40 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · State v. Sepulvado · Juidice v. Vail · 374 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Spencer · 373 So. 2d 1307 - State v. Franks
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither the testimony of his mother nor that of Dr. Ellington created a reasonable ground to doubt defendant's mental capacity to proceed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Question: Do you understand the definition of Burglary of an Inhabited Dwelling? Answer: Yes. Question: Do you understand, after a plea bargain agreement, it has been recommended that if the plea of guilty is accepted, you [c]ould be sentenced to serve three years at hard labor with the Department of Corrections, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence? Answer: Yes sir. Question: Is anyone forcing you to enter this plea? Answer: No sir. Emphasis supplied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wilson“[t]he only logical conclusion that can be drawn from this record is that the defense has failed to convince the court that there was a reasonable ground to doubt the defendant's mental capacity to proceed.”
1 later decision 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.