Sleeper’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Bailey v. McGill (1957), 56 Wash. 2d 48 - Peterson v. Hagan (1960)
30 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 Bennett v. Davis · Porter v. Ritch · In Re Petition of Simon G. Crosswell · Ex Parte Dagley · City of Portland v. City of Bangor
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Page 312.-----“It could be taken only in those cases where two physicians certified to the municipal officers that immediate restraint and detention was (sic) necessary for the comfort and safety of the person alleged to be insane and for the safety of others.” Page 310.-----“As we have heretofore shown, the original law” (now R. S., Chap. 27, Sec. 105) “authorized the municipal officers on petition to them, and after notice and hearing to commit in all cases emergent or otherwise. It also provided for temporary commitment in emergency cases pending such hearing. Along with these provisions for commitment by the municipal officers,”-----”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunbar v. Greenlaw““It is not what has been done, or ordinarily would be done, under a statute, but what might be done under it, that determines whether it infringes upon the constitutional right of the citizen. The constitution guards against the chances of infringement.” Bennett v. Davis, 1897, 90 Me. 102, 105 , 37 A. 864, 865 ; Sleeper, Applt., 1952, 147 Me. 302, 308 , 87 A.2d 115 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.