Pate v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
637 F.2d 1068 · 1981
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably United States v. Martin (1983), Cremeans v. Chapleau (1995)
29 federal appellate · 6 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 · Drope v. Missouri · Ohio v. Kentucky · Joseph Skilken & Co. v. City of Toledo
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[w]hether a reasonable judge, situated as was the trial court judge whose failure to conduct an evidentiary hearing is being reviewed, should have experienced doubt with respect to competency to stand trial.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a retrospective determination [of a defendant's competency] may satisfy the requirements of due process if it is based on evidence related to observations made or knowledge possessed at the time of trial”
1 later decision 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.