Boag v. Raines’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 1341 · 1985
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably William Jones v. Ml Smith Attorney General State of California (2000), Williams v. Woodford (2002)
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 18 U.S.C. § 2254
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Dusky v. United States · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · United States v. McConney · Joseph Skilken & Co. v. City of Toledo
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a habeas proceeding, a petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on the issue of competency to stand trial if he presents sufficient facts to create a real and substantial doubt as to his competency, even if those facts were not presented to the trial court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baca v. Udall · Douglas v. Woodford“either extremely erratic and irrational behavior during the course of the trial, or lengthy histories of acute psychosis and psychiatric treatment.”
2 later decisions 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.