655 So. 2d 1 - Billiot v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 9 So. 3d 368 - Burrough v. State (2009), Goff v. State (2009)
22 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 Drope v. Missouri · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Frye v. United States · Ford v. Wainwright · Foy v. Northeast Suburban Life
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the trial court has made a finding that the evidence does not show a probability that the defendant is incapable of making a rational defense, we will not overturn that finding unless we can say, from the evidence, that the finding was manifestly against the overwhelming weight of the evidence. The evidence must show more than a possibility that defendant is incompetent to stand trial — the evidence must go further until it appears to the trial court that there is a probability that defendant is incapable of making a rational defense. In this initial inquiry, the trial judge must weigh the evidence and be the trier of facts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“He must comprehend the reasons for the penalty and its implications, he must understand the penalty's existence and purpose,' and in order for the retributive goal of the criminal law to be satisfied, he must `perceive the connection between his crime and his punishment,' and be `aware that his death is approaching [so] he can prepare himself for his passing.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not have a rational understanding of the proceedings; . . . rationally he can't connect what he was tried for and . . . the penalty and his actions. He can't relate those. And he . . . believes that he will never be executed”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. Johnson
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.