State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2024
11 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 Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · United States v. Sealy, Inc. · State v. Lafferty
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(Hn determining whether a trial court denied due process in refusing a competency hearing, ... the focus should be on what the trial court did in light of what it then knew of the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In determining whether a defendant is competent to plead guilty, the trial court must consider 'whether the defendant has sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding and has a rational as well as a factual understanding of the proceedings against him.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. State · Jacobs v. State“[MJere distress, nervousness, or emotional upset at the time of pleading does not establish mental incompetence to plead. ...”
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.