Germany v. Hudspeth’s Empirical Analysis
209 F.2d 15 · 1954
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Dickey v. Florida (1970), Nickens v. United States (1963)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Palko v. State of Connecticut · De Jonge v. Oregon · Hebert v. State of Louisiana · Burlington County Bridge Commission v. Driscoll · Spies v. Illinois
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Individual statements or beliefs by different members of the medical staff that [defendant] was sane could not have the force and effect of setting aside a judicial determination of mental incapacity. [Defendant’s] mental capacity could thereafter be established only by an orderly proceeding according to law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wong
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.