Christopher Demos v. W.E. Johnson, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
835 F.2d 840 · 1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2018
5 federal appellate · 4 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 Santobello v. New York · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Stein v. Reynolds Securities, Inc.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need not be presented in a formal motion nor argued by defense counsel nor be presented to the judge in form of admissible evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coleman v. Saffle · Stano v. Dugger“to grant a psychiatric examination or to make further inquiry into the accused's competence constituted a Pate violation and denied him a fair trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Furthermore, state trial judges have the authority to change rulings, or to change their minds about rulings.”
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.