Mata v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

cited by 34 later decisions

states following

February 2013

most recently cited

33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Moore v. State (1999), Collier v. State (1997)

33 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 Von Byrd v. State · Scamardo v. State · McWherter v. State · Porter v. State · Robinson 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“(a) If the court determines that there is evidence to support a finding of incompetency to stand trial, a jury shall be impaneled to determine the defendant’s competency to stand trial.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Casey v. State · Thompson v. State
“a real doubt in the judge’s mind as to the defendant's competency. [Evidence raising a bona fide doubt] need not be sufficient to support a finding of incompetence and is qualitatively different from such evidence.” Mata v. State, 632 S.W.2d 355, 358 (Tex.Crim.App.1982). We have also used ‘‘bona fide doubt” and”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Alcott v. State
““Generally, to raise the issue, there must be evidence of recent severe mental illness or bizarre acts by the defendant or of moderate retardation. Porter v. State, 623 S.W.2d 374 (Tex.Cr.App.1981).” (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Loftin 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.