Beckham v. Cline’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Bailey v. McGill (1957), Bromund v. Holt (1964)
4 federal appellate · 20 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 Fisher and Fisher v. Payne · Hutchinson v. Stone · McEwen and McEwen v. Schenck · Carn v. Haisley · Robinson v. Bruner
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The gravamen of the right of action is not that the defendants, after examination, reported a conclusion not warranted by the facts, but the right of recovery lies in the allegation that they made no examination of the plaintiff but made a false report to the court as alleged in the declaration and thereby caused her to be confined in a public insane asylum, The Florida State Hospital, when, in truth and in fact, she was not insane and when, as alleged in the declaration, if the defendant physicians had made any examination of her, they would have found that she was not insane.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crouch v. Cameron“Immunity does not apply to protect a judicial officer in a case where such officer causes the arrest and detention of a person in a proceeding in which he is acting without jurisdiction.”
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.