United States v. Brandon’s Empirical Analysis
158 F.3d 947 · 1998
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Sell v. United States (2003), State v. Kotis (1999)
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Bell v. Wolfish · Santosky v. Kramer · Roe v. Wade
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he decision in the present case is whether to medicate a non-dangerous pretrial detainee in order to render him competent to stand trial, rather than to protect his safety or the safety of those around him while he is confined. The decision to be made here thus relates solely to trial administration rather than to prison administration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“is the least restrictive and least harmful means of satisfying the government's goal . . . of rendering [the individual] competent to stand trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“resolve an important issue completely separate from the merits of the action,”
2 later decisions 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.