Mason ex rel. Marson v. Vasquez’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.3d 1220 · 1993
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably United States v. Boigegrain (1998), State v. Ross (2005)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Whitmore v. Arkansas · Brewster v. Derwinski · Medina v. California
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Initially sufficient evidence must be presented to cause the court to conduct an inquiry. After that point, it is no one’s burden to sustain, rather it is for the court to determine by a preponderance of the evidence whether the petitioner is mentally competent to withdraw his petition.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the district court's account of the evidence is plausible in light of the record viewed in its entirety.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hether [the petitioner] has the capacity to appreciate his position and make a rational choice with respect to continuing or abandoning further litigation or on the other hand whether he is suffering from a mental disease, disorder, or defect which may substantially affect his capacity in the premises.”
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.