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Hinnant’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
7
states following
September 2017
most recently cited

19 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3182

Relies on Gerstein v. Pugh · Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Michigan v. Doran

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

  1. ““[T]he court in Romeo noted that ‘we are not presented here with a claim that petitioner is catatonic, has lost all contact with reality, or is totally unable to communicate, and we do not decide how we would view a due process argument were a severe claim of that sort presented.’ Id. at 544. Hinnant is not able to communicate with his lawyer and is unable to comprehend the charges against him; he presents just such a claim.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “[t]he statutory right to have the assistance of counsel would, in such a case, become a nullity”
    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.