Ahern v. O'Donnell’s Empirical Analysis
109 F.3d 809 · 1997
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Bruno (2000), Estate of Bennett v. Wainwright (2008)
12 federal appellate · 8 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · United States v. Mendenhall · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“believes that failure to hospitalize a person would create a likelihood of serious harm by reason of mental illness”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winfield v. Town of Andover · S.P., a Citizen of Takoma Park, Maryland v. The City of Takoma Park, Maryland Robert Phillips, in His Official Capacity as Chief of the Takoma Park Police Department Brian Rich, Individually and in His Capacity as an Officer of the Takoma Park Police Department Unknown and Unidentified Police Officers of the Takoma Police Department Who Were Present at and Involved in the Incidents Complained of Herein, Individually and in Their Capacity as Officers of the Takoma Park Police Department Washington Adventist Hospital Cyril Hardy James Buxbaum Paul O'Brien Carla Cunningham Marlene Wesley, American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, Inc., Amicus Curiae, Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger, L.L.P., Movant“It is now well-settled that the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures apply to the involuntary hospitalization of persons for psychiatric reasons.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Fourth Amendment standards require a showing of probable cause; that is, circumstances warranting a reasonable belief that the person to be seized does (as outlined in the statute) have a mental health condition threatening serious harm to himself or others.”
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.