Overholser v. Boddie’s Empirical Analysis
184 F.2d 240 · 1950
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 1978 · most notably Miller v. Overholser (1953), Dixon v. Jacobs (1970)
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 Dorsey v. Gill · Dorsey v. Gill · Barry v. Hall · Overholser v. De Marcos · De Marcos v. Overholser
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only function assigned to the Commission with respect to a patient who claims to have recovered his sanity is described in § 320. It is there provided that any person committed as insane, who has been released as improved, or paroled but not discharged as cured, and who has been on release or parole for six months or longer, may apply to the District Court for a hearing to de termine his sanity and his right to restoration to the status of a person of sound mind.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * The statute is silent, moreover, as to the right of a confined patient to assert he has regained sanity and to ask release from custody because of his changed mental condition, although it extends that right to one not confined. Such silence recognizes the remedy of habeas corpus; * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Douglas v. Hall
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.