Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2013
23 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 Pate v. Robinson · Sisco v. State · Johnson v. State · Wallis v. State · Williams v. State
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On November 19, 1979, after the jury verdict, but prior to the entry of judgment and sentence in this cause, the Appellant, by and through his attorneys of record, filed his SUGGESTION OF MENTAL RETARDATION AND REQUEST FOR JURY TRIAL. Although misti-tled, and inartfully worded, this written motion had the legal effect of raising the issue of the Appellant’s incompetency to stand trial. There is evidence in this record to support a finding of incompetency to stand trial, and the Trial Court was under the mandatory duty to impanel a jury to determine the Appellant’s competency. In overruling the Appellant’s SUGGESTION OF MENTAL RETARDATION AND REQUEST FOR JURY TRIAL, in the face of evidence of the Appellant’s incompetency to stand trial, the Trial Court violated the mandatory provisions of Article 46.02, § 4(c) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, and therefore erred, (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. State“The issue of the defendant’s incompetency to stand trial shall be determined in ad- vanee of the trial on the merits if the court determines there is evidence to support a finding of incompetency to stand trial on its own motion or on written motion by the defendant or his counsel filed prior to the date set for trial on the merits asserting that the defendant is incompetent to stand trial, (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alcott v. State“If the issue of incompetency to stand trial is raised other than by written motion in advance of trial pursuant to Subsection (a) of Section 2 of this article and the court determines that there is evidence to support a finding of incompetency to stand trial, the court shall set the issue for determination at any time prior to the sentencing of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alcott v. State
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.