Robinson v. Winstead’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Guernsey-Newton Co. v. Napier · Yeomans v. Williams · 80 N.J. Eq. 386 - Allgor v. New Jersey State Hospital · State v. Eastman · Mallory v. Virginia Colony for Feeble-Minded
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that “although the confinement of an insane person is illegal, if his going at large will be dangerous to himself or to other people, he will not be set at liberty under a writ of habeas corpus but will be detained to permit a legal commitment to be secured under proper proceedings.””
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.