Ex parte Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
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
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“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“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“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
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