489 So. 2d 737 - James v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2012
16 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 Strickland v. Washington · 457 So. 2d 481 - State v. Neil · James v. State · 473 So. 2d 1253 - Hill v. State · 465 So. 2d 510 - Witt v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The possibility of organic brain damage ... does not necessarily mean ... that one may engage in violent, dangerous behavior and not be held accountable. There are many people suffering from varying degrees of organic brain disease who can and do function in today's society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“insufficient to contradict substantially the original psychiatric study and, even if [it] did, [was] insufficient to raise the issue of incompetence to stand trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James v. Singletary“falls short of stating that [petitioner] was incompetent to stand trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James v. Singletary
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.