Willie Crenshaw v. Charles L. Wolff, Jr., Warden’s Empirical Analysis
504 F.2d 377 · 1975
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Thomas v. Wyrick (1976), State v. Young (1977)
18 federal appellate · 7 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 Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Wingo v. Wedding · Phelps Dodge Corp. v. AFL-CIO Joint Negotiating Committee · Rachal 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard traditionally employed by this court to determine if counsel rendered ineffective assistance has been whether a “farce” or “mockery of justice” had occurred. More recently, several jurisdictions have worded the test for determining whether assistance of an attorney was constitutionally adequate in terms of whether the accused received “reasonably competent assistance of counsel.” See generally McQueen v. Swenson, 498 F.2d 207 (8th Cir. 1974). Although this court in McQueen declined to rule whether the “mockery of justice” standard should be abandoned in favor of the standard more recently established in other jurisdictions, we find that the conduct of the assistant public defender in this casé was fully adequate under either test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Wyrick“[A] conviction cannot stand where defendant lacks capacity to defend himself. Drope v. Missouri, 420 U.S. 162 , 43 L.Ed. 2d 103 , 95 S.Ct. 896 (1975); Pate v. Robinson, 383 U.S. 375 , 15 L.Ed. 2d 815 , 86 S.Ct. 836 (1966). ‘[A] trial court has a constitutional duty to institute, sua sponte, a competency hearing if there is substantial evidence before the court indicating that the accused may be mentally incompetent.’ (Emphasis added.) Crenshaw v. Wolff, 504 F. 2d 377 (8th Cir. 1974), cert. denied, 420 U.S. 966 (1975). See Wolf v. United States, 430 F. 2d 443 (10th Cir. 1970) (‘bona fide doubt’ as to competency).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Heptinstall“a charge of inadequate representation can prevail “only if it can be said that what was or was not done by defendant’s attorney for his client made the proceedings a farce and a mockery of justice, shocking to the conscience of the Court”, [citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Wyrick
How this case has been treated — in progress
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