Ocampo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2025
1 federal appellate · 19 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 Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Nix v. Whiteside · Johnson v. Oklahoma · Chaney v. Oklahoma
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trial court must first determine if the defendant is competent by appropriate interrogation of the defendant, and his defense counsel, ... regarding the defendant's past and present mental state as well as by the defendant's demeanor before the court[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Marshall v. Allen · Berget v. State“best expedites the interests of justice and promotes finality by foreclosing state and federal collateral attacks.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Berget v. State · Allen v. State“guilty plea entered while maintaining innocence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.