State v. Hovey’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably State v. McFerran (1969), State v. Herrera (1978)
40 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. § 4244
Relies on Grunewald v. United States · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Anderson · Alvado v. General Motors Corp. · United States v. Behrens
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Section 41-13-3.1, supra, requires there to be a `question' as to the accused's capacity to stand trial. The `question' is not raised by an assertion of that issue, even though the assertion is in good faith. As in the similar federal statute, there must be a showing of reasonable cause for the belief that an accused is not competent to stand trial. * * *"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ Where circumstantial evidence alone is relied upon for a conviction such evidence must be incompatible with the innocence of the accused upon any rational theory and incapable of explanation upon any reasonable hypothesis of the defendant’s innocence. * * * “ ‘It is not enough that the testimony raise a strong suspicion of guilt. It must exclude every reasonable hypothesis other than the guilt of the defendant. * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Webb““Whenever it appears, * * * at any stage of a criminal proceeding that there is a question as to the mental competency of a defendant to stand trial, any further proceeding in the cause shall be suspended until the court, without a jury, determines this issue. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morales
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.