Weeks v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
52 F.3d 1559 · 1995
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2017
6 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on McCleskey v. Zant · Sumner v. Mata · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Barefoot v. Estelle · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his [cjourt would have the obligation of determining whether Mr. Madison, as a result of mental illness or mental retardation, cannot understand the nature of the pending proceeding, what he ... was tried for, the reason for the punishment, or the nature of the punishment. And I’m reading from Weeks.... The convict is also incompetent if, as a result of mental illness or retardation, the convict lacks sufficient capacity to recognize or understand any fact which may exist which would make the punishment unjust or lawful, or lacks the ability to convey such information to counsel or the [c]ourt. Obviously, there’s the United States Supreme Court decision in P[a]netti as well, which describes the standard as one of having a rational understanding of the proceedings and not just a factual understanding of what’s happening.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“adopted different legal definitions of Eighth Amendment mental competency for execution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Weeks v. Jones“addresses this issue for the first time in this case.”
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.