Holmes v. King’s Empirical Analysis
709 F.2d 965 · 1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2012
12 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Estelle v. Smith · Maggio v. Fulford
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.
“To show a substantive violation, an accused must prove an inability either to comprehend or participate in the criminal proceedings .... To show a procedural violation, the accused must point to evidence before the trial court that raised a bona fide doubt about competency. Once such a doubt is known to the trial court, it must conduct an adequate hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Due process prohibits the conviction of an accused who lacks mental competence to stand trial.”
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.