Steinsvik v. Vinzant’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.2d 949 · 1981
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Boag v. Raines (1985), United States v. Parra-Ibanez (1991)
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Pate v. Robinson · Sanders v. United States · Blackledge v. Allison · 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if the evidence before the trial judge was insufficient to raise a good faith doubt with respect to [a defendant's] competency, he would still be entitled to [a hearing] if it now appears that he was in fact incompetent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Certainly the mere fact that psychiatric help was felt to be desirable as an aid to rehabilitation cannot be said to create a bona fide doubt of [petitioner's] capacity to participate intelligently in the proceedings facing him....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he possibility of deportation is not a direct consequence of a guilty plea, and the sentencing court is not required to advise an alien defendant that he could be subject to deportation as a result of the plea.”
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.