United States Ex Rel. Jerry Roth v. John L. Zelker, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility’s Empirical Analysis
455 F.2d 1105 · 1972
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015 · most notably Medina v. California (1992), United States v. Bubar (1977)
19 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4244
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Tyler v. Beto
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the opinion of a defendant’s attorney as to his ability to understand the nature of the proceedings and to cooperate in the preparation of his defense, is indeed significant and probative.””
1 later decision 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.