Cowley v. Stricklin’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 640 · 1991
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2019
9 federal appellate · 8 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 Ake v. Oklahoma · Britt v. North Carolina · Rath Packing Co. Creditors' Trust v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Colony Square Co. v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Martin v. Wainwright
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The district court found that Dr. Habeeb was a `qualified,' `independent psychiatrist.' This may have been the case, but Dr. Habeeb did not provide the constitutionally requisite assistance to Cowley's defense. Ake holds that psychiatric assistance must be made available for the defense. This assistance may include conducting `a professional examination on issues relevant to the defense,' presenting testimony, and assisting `in preparing the cross-examination of a State's psychiatric witnesses.' Dr. Habeeb performed none of these essential tasks on Cowley's behalf. Dr. Habeeb was called by the prosecution and testified against Cowley at both the competency hearing and the trial. His testimony was that he had examined Cowley and found him to be competent and that Cowley showed no signs of schizophrenia or other evidence of insanity at the time of the crime. Dr. Habeeb did not assist in Cowley's trial preparation and obviously could not have assisted Cowley in his own cross-examination."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The right to psychiatric assistance does not mean the right to place the report of a `neutral' psychiatrist before the court; rather it means the right to use the services of a psychiatrist in whatever capacity defense counsel deems appropriate including to decide, with the psychiatrist's assistance, not to present to the court particular claims of mental impairment."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It was impossible for Cowley to meet this heavy burden, but not because he was insufficiently disturbed. The state of Alabama made it impossible for Cowley to meet this burden by refusing to provide an independent mental health professional who could evaluate Cowley's sanity at the time of the assault.”
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.