State v. Roybal’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 1984 · most notably State v. McAfee (1967), State v. Gutierrez (1967)
38 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 State v. Garcia · State v. Compton · State v. Upton · State v. Romero · In re Smith
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o person shall be called upon to stand trial or be sentenced who because of mental illness is incapable of understanding the nature and object of the proceedings, or of comprehending his own condition in reference thereto, or of making a rational defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sena · State v. Cliett““No particular mode or manner of procedure must be followed in raising the issue of the insanity of a defendant existing at the time, of arraignment, trial, judgment or execution, so long as there is a sufficient showing to create a reasonable doubt as to the sanity of the accused; and upon the issue being raised the accused is by right under our statute . . . entitled to have the jury pass upon it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chavez
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.