State v. Bertrand

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• adopting the rule approved in Pate as an affirmative requirement of the State Constitution
• “Competency to stand trial . . . is a legal, and not a medical, concept.”
• expert opinions are evidence of competency

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Medina v. California
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-22· cited 1,180×
• People v. Medina
  California Supreme Court· 1990-11-19· cited 253×
• State v. Faragi
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1985-08-05· cited 46×
• People v. Mixon
  California Court of Appeal· 1990-11-27· cited 37×
• State v. Shields
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1990-11-15· cited 31×
• State v. Jones
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1987-05-27· cited 28×
• State v. Veale
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2009-05-01· cited 22×
• State v. Haycock
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2001-02-02· cited 21×
• State v. Champagne
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1985-08-16· cited 16×
• State v. Zorzy
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1993-03-11· cited 16×
• State v. Wynn
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1985-02-22· cited 6×
• State v. Gagne
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1986-12-31· cited 6×
• The State of New Hampshire v. Thomas Jur
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2014-05-08· cited 2×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2025-01-07· cited 1×
• People v. Ary
  California Court of Appeal· 2009-04-20
• State v. Patrick Eschenbrenner
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2015-10-27
• State of New Hampshire v. Mohammad Salimullah
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2020-01-10
• State v. Mendez
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2021-06-09
• In re G.W.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2023-07-13
• Johnny Max Mount, Jr. a/k/a Johnny Max Mount v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2025-01-07

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Dusky v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-04-18· cited 3,197×
• Pate v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1966-03-21· cited 3,039×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• Drope v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1975-02-19· cited 2,695×
• Leland v. Oregon
  Supreme Court· 1952-10-13· cited 1,010×
• Bishop v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1956-02-27· cited 282×
• United States v. John Digilio, in No. 75-2218. Appeal of Harry Lupo, in No. 75-2219. Appeal of Peter Szwandrak, in No. 75-2220
  Third Circuit· 1976-08-10· cited 151×
• Brizendine v. Swenson
  W.D. Missouri· 1969-08-11· cited 59×
• James Edward Pate v. Steve Smith, Warden of Kentucky State Reformatory Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Sixth Circuit· 1981-01-09· cited 47×
• Novosel v. Helgemoe
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1978-03-10· cited 47×
• Stapleford v. Perrin
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1982-12-28· cited 47×
• United States ex rel. Bilyew v. Franzen
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-08-17· cited 43×
• Jorge Acosta v. R. v. Turner, Superintendent, Glades Correctional Institution
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-02-04· cited 33×
• Lester Paul Brown v. Warden, Great Meadow Correctional Facility
  Second Circuit· 1982-06-23· cited 31×
• Daniel Webster Tillery v. Frank A. Eyman, Superintendent, Arizona State Prison
  Ninth Circuit· 1974-03-22· cited 30×
• Roy v. Perrin
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1982-02-12· cited 29×
• State v. Zysk
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1983-07-13· cited 25×
• State v. George
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1969-09-30· cited 20×
• State v. Hayes
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1978-06-19· cited 17×
• State v. Hesse
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1977-04-29· cited 16×