Rector v. Bryant, Attorney General of Arkansas, Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 10 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 279 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Rousseau v. State (1993), Finley v. Special Agents Mutual Benefit Ass'n, Inc. (1992)
93 federal appellate · 10 district · 87 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Penry v. Lynaugh · Trop v. Dulles · Ford v. Wainwright · City of El Centro v. United States
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 279 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A convict is ... incompetent if, as a result of mental illness or mental retardation, the convict lacks sufficient capacity to recognize or understand any fact which might exist which would make the punishment unjust or unlawful, or lacks the ability to convey such information to counsel or the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Walton v. Johnson“whether petitioner understands that he is to be punished by execution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Weeks v. Jones“whether petitioner understands why he is being punished”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Weeks v. Jones
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.