Timberlake v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
April 2015
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Atkins v. Virginia · Penry v. Lynaugh · Ford v. Wainwright · Foss v. Foss · In re Rivera
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is my opinion, with reasonable medical certainty, that the defendant, despite his serious mental illness, does have the mental capacity to understand that he is about to be executed and to understand why he is to be executed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Timberlake v. State
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.