Jillson v. Caprio’s Empirical Analysis
181 F.2d 523 · 1950
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1993 · most notably Sami v. United States (1979), Orvis v. Brickman (1952)
20 federal appellate · 8 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 Warner v. State of New York · Emmerich v. Thorley
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In providing protection for persons whose relatives think or pretend to think they require restraint because of mental illness, Congress necessarily struck a balance between individual liberty and public safety. A policeman or a psychiatrist may think Congress should have drawn the line in a different place but may not make arrests on that theory. Some insane and some sane persons may well be thought dangerous, but even the most reasonable belief that they will do harm in the future does not justify doctor or layman in arresting them without statutory authorization and without a warrant. Appellee’s calling neither defeats appellant’s claim to damages nor reduces its amount.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of Herman
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.