State v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably State v. Cowans (1999), 99 Ohio St. 3d 439 - State v. Williams (2003)
31 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 Faretta v. California · North Carolina v. Alford · Teague v. Lane · Engle v. Isaac · Jones v. Barnes
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A capital defendant is mentally competent to abandon any and all challenges to his death sentence ... if he has the mental capacity to understand the choice between life and death and to make a knowing and intelligent decision not to pursue further remedies. The defendant must fully comprehend the ramifications of his decision, and must possess the ‘ability to reason logically,’ i.e., to choose ‘means which relate logically to his ends.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Franklin v. Francis“We ... reject the notion that the bare possibility of a mental disorder’s substantially affecting the condemned’s decision making capacity is enough to require a finding of incompetence. Ultimately, the question is not whether a defendant ‘may’ lack the capacity to make a rational choice, but whether he in fact has that capacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Franklin v. Francis“Whether he has capacity to appreciate his position and make a rational choice with respect to continuing or abandoning further litigation or on the other hand whether he is suffering from a mental disease, disorder, or defect which may substantially affect his capacity in the premises.”
1 later decision 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.