Howard v. Overholser’s Empirical Analysis
130 F.2d 429 · 1942
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1972 · most notably Dorsey v. Gill (1945), Dorsey v. Gill (1945)
25 federal appellate · 3 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 Hans v. State of Louisiana · State of Texas v. State of Florida · Fitts v. McGhee · Andrews v. Andrews · Riley v. New York Trust Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Not only in respect to transactions, but in relation to litigation, elementary conceptions require that he [the insane person] be represented by another mentally and legally competent. Due process would seem to require this when his rights are involved in court. It is the court's duty, therefore, when a sufficient petition has been filed and its power thereby brought into play, to appoint either a guardian or counsel to represent the petitioner in the further stages of the proceeding.” 3”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dooling v. Overholser · In re Basso“might remain in confinement indefinitely, though in fact restored to sanity, with no legal means of securing discharge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dorsey v. Gill
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.