Fajeriak v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably State v. Quattlebaum (2000), Jackson v. State (1977)
28 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 18 U.S.C. § 4244 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Wong Sun v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he potential for fraudulent allegations of memory loss is so great that we would for this reason alone be reluctant to follow [sic] amnesia as a ground for a finding of incompetency even if we were otherwise inclined to do so.” Fajeriak v. State, 520 P.2d 795, 802 (Alaska 1974). The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has said”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Great deference is to be accorded defense counsel’s assessment in [competency] matters, insofar as he is better able than the trial judge or the prosecutor to assess the defendant’s ability to participate in his defense and to understand the nature of the proceedings against him. (footnote omitted)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smiloff v. State · Morgan v. State“No person who as a result of mental disease or defects lacks capacity to understand the proceedings against him or to assist in his own defense may be tried, convicted or sentenced for the commission of an offense so long as the incapacity endures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKinney 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.