Ex Parte Locklin’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1990
9 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 · Townsend v. State · Ex Parte Hagans · Morales v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The necessity of the separate hearing on the question of competency is so that the determination of an accused’s compe tency can be made ‘uncluttered by the evidence of the offense itself.’ Townsend v. State, 427 S.W.2d 55, 63 (Tex.Cr.App.1968). Such separate uncluttered hearing before a jury makes it easier to determine fairly the issue of competency without introducing facts which might tend to cloud the issue at hand, ‘facts which alone might well so stir the minds of the jury as to make difficult the exercise of calm judgment upon the question of present [incompeteney],’ Ramirez v. State, 92 Tex.Cr.R. 38 , 241 S.W. 1020, 1021 (1922).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brandon v. State“It is contradictory to argue that a defendant may be incompetent, and yet knowingly or intelligently “waive” his capacity to stand trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.