Ake v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2019 · most notably Ake v. Oklahoma (1985), Cartwright v. Maynard (1987)
6 federal appellate · 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not have the responsibility of providing such services [court-appointed experts] to indigents charged with capital crimes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. State · Ake v. Oklahoma“which remains until the defendant raises, by sufficient evidence, a reasonable doubt as to his sanity at the time of the crime. If the issue is so raised, the burden of proving the defendant's sanity beyond a reasonable doubt falls upon the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ake v. Oklahoma“stared vacantly ahead throughout the trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ake v. Oklahoma
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.