Silverstein v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
706 F.2d 361 · 1983
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Cone v. Bell (2009), Thomas Garcia v. Hazel Lewis Hale Creek Correctional Facility (1999)
13 federal appellate · 8 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Jackson v. Denno · United States v. Frady · Rose v. Lundy · McCarthy 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is contradictory to argue that a defendant may be incompetent, and yet knowingly or intelligently 'waive' his right to have the court determine his capacity to stand trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an unsupported or manipulative finding of procedural default would not constitute an adequate state ground barring federal habeas relief”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“conflicting reports, a cold, sparse record, and the recollection of those who saw and dealt with [defendant] ... years ago,”
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.