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158 F.2d 401 · 1946

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
May 1951
most recently cited

9 federal appellate ·

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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 461

Relies on Dorsey v. Gill · Dorsey v. Gill

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “that even in the most desperate types of insanity and those in which the prognosis is apparently hopeless, there may be opportunity of recovery,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “this mere possibility certainly is not of itself enough. If it were, then every insane person might file a new but similar petition every week”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “contains nothing, directly or by inference, to indicate an alteration in appellant's mental state”
    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.