Miller v. Overholser’s Empirical Analysis
206 F.2d 415 · 1953
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 19 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably James Covington v. David W. Harris (1969), Kenneth Donaldson v. J. B. O'connor, M.D. And John Gumanis, M.D. (1974)
62 federal appellate · 19 district · 19 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Logan v. United States · McNally v. Hill · In re Bonner · State of Minnesota Pearson v. Probate Court of Ramsey County Minn · Coffin v. Reichard
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person, not insane, who by a course of repeated misconduct in sexual matters has evidenced such lack of power to control his sexual impulses as to be dangerous to other persons because he is likely to attack or otherwise inflict injury, loss, pain, or other evil on the objects of his desire.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“treatment of the mentally ill who are not insane,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * # * * * “We think it has been settled since the decision of the Supreme Court in In re Bonner 14 that the writ is “14. 1894, 151 U.S. 242 , 14 S.Ct. 323 , 38 L.Ed. 149 . available to test the validity not only of the fact of confinement but also of the place of confinement. In that case a person convicted in a federal court was sentenced to imprisonment in a state penitentiary. He claimed that under the statutes he could not be confined in such a penitentiary. The court held habeas corpus to be his correct remedy.” (first emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simon v. Maryland
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.