Reese v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
600 F.2d 1085 · 1979
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Hance v. Zant (1983), Holloway v. McElroy (1980)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc.
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[W]hen habeas relief is sought on grounds of a violation of the Pate procedural right to a competency hearing, a petitioner shoulders the burden of proving that objective facts known to the trial court were sufficient to raise a bona fide doubt as to the defendant's competency.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ourts in habeas corpus proceedings should not consider claims of mental incompetence to stand trial where the facts are not sufficient to positively, unequivocally, and clearly generate a real, substantial, and legitimate doubt as to the mental capacity of the petitioner.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in light of what was then known, the failure to make further inquiry into petitioner's competency to stand trial, denied him a fair trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.