Davis v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
766 F.2d 1197 · 1985
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Blodgett v. Commissioner (2005), Lafferty v. Cook (1991)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Young · Rose v. Lundy · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Dusky 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the obvious result would be a plain miscarriage of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[I]t is not enough for the district judge to find that ‘the defendant [is] oriented to time and place and [has] some recollection of events,’ but that the ‘test must be whether he has sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding— and whether he has a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lafferty v. Cook“there is no indication that there [is] any new evidence to be presented on the competency issue at the time of trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James v. Iowa
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.