Lokos v. Capps’s Empirical Analysis
625 F.2d 1258 · 1980
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Conner v. State (1994), Nguyen v. Reynolds B (1997)
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 · Drope v. Missouri · Dickey v. Florida · Balistrieri 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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Did the trial judge receive information which, objectively considered, should reasonably have raised a doubt about defendant's competence and alerted him to the possibility that the defendant could neither understand the proceedings, appreciate their significance, nor rationally aid his attorney in his defense?”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when he makes a showing by clear and convincing evidence to raise threshold doubt about his competency.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“need not be presented in a formal motion nor argued by defense counsel nor be presented to the judge in form of admissible evidence.”
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.