In re Buttonow’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably United States of America Ex Rel. Roy Schuster, Relator-Appellant v. Ross E. Herold, M.D., Director of Dannemora State Hospital, Dannemora, New York (1969), United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (1971)
11 federal appellate · 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 Baxstrom v. Herold
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“more than once read into a statute a requirement for the protection of a mentally ill person in order to save it from being stricken as unconstitutional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has always been to construe statutes in such a manner as to uphold their constitutionality,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.