Moran v. Godinez’s Empirical Analysis
972 F.2d 263 · 1992
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021
13 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Townsend v. Sain · Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Competency to waive constitutional rights requires a higher level of mental functioning than that required to stand trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bakalov · Godinez v. Moran“a rational and factual understanding of the proceedings and is capable of assisting his counsel,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bakalov · Godinez v. Moran“he has the capacity for `reasoned choice' among the alternatives available to him,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bakalov · Godinez v. Moran
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.