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1986

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
October 2017
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 43 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Wright v. Illinois (1987), Hunter v. State (1995)

1 federal appellate · 43 state decisions

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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 Faretta v. California · Jones v. Howard · Cryts v. French · Bottoson v. Florida · Pope v. Nebraska

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

  1. “The reports of experts are `merely advisory to the [trial court], which itself retains the responsibility of the decision.'”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Peede v. State · Hunter v. State
  2. “he has sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding—and whether he has a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Hunter v. State · 800 So. 2d 182 - Evans v. State
  3. “[t]he record affirmatively shows that [the defendant] was literate, competent, and understanding, and that he was voluntarily exercising his informed free will”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Hart v. State · 516 So. 2d 968 - BREVARD COUNTY BD. OF COM'RS v. State

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.