Chavez v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
641 F.2d 1253 · 1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2010
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 4244 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Padilla-Martinez 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ability to make a reasoned choice among the alternatives presented to him and to understand the nature of the consequences of his plea.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such that a reasonable judge would be expected to experience a genuine doubt respecting the defendant's competence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A hearing is not required, on the basis of the section 4244 motion alone, if the psychiatrist’s report does not indicate present incompetence, [cite omitted]. A judicial determination of competence or incompetence is required after the mandatory psychiatric examination, regardless of the content of the report.”
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.