People v. Soto’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2001
6 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 Dusky v. United States · Wilson v. United States · State v. McClendon · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Cummins v. Price · 46 Ill. 2d 281 - People Ex Rel. Myers v. Briggs
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether a person, who is accused of a crime and who is accurately oriented in all respecis except that he is suffering from amnesia, may be committed to a mental institution to await the day he can recall the facts and circumstances surrounding the alleged crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Palmer“A rationale of such decisions is based upon the thought that amnesia presents a situation which parallels other cases [in] which a defendant does not recall the facts surrounding the event, e.g. intoxication, blackout, and delayed arrest narcotic cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Palmer
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.