Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Bryson v. State (1994), Valdez v. State (1995)
1 federal appellate · 29 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 Strickland v. Washington · Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Federal Communications Commission v. League of Women Voters of California · Burch v. State of Louisiana
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the present ability of a person arrested for or charged with a crime to understand the nature of the charges and proceedings brought against him, and is able to effectively and rationally assist in his defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[There is no right under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, or under Article II, § 19 or 20, of the Oklahoma Constitution, to a jury trial in a competency hearing. The right to have a jury hear the question of the accused's competency is statutory and must be demanded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court, at the hearing on the application, shall determine, by a preponderance of the evidence, if the person is incompetent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ochoa 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.