722 So. 2d 481 - Richardson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2015
18 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 · Drope v. Missouri · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State · Conner 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If before or during trial the court, of its own motion or upon motion of an attorney, has reasonable ground to believe that the defendant is incompetent to stand trial, the court shall order the defendant to submit to a mental examination .... After the examination the court shall conduct a hearing to determine if the defendant is competent to stand trial....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“burden is met and a prima facie case made out by testimony of an officer, or other persons having knowledge of the facts, that the confession was voluntarily made without any threats, coercion, or offer of reward.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether a continuance should be granted or denied is within the sound discretion of the trial court. Only when manifest injustice appears to have resulted from the decision to deny the continu-anee will this Court reverse on that basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dillard 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.