Overholser v. Leach’s Empirical Analysis
257 F.2d 667 · 1958
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2008 · most notably Lynch v. Overholser (1962), Bolton v. Harris (1968)
62 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America v. Harrington · Lyles v. United States · Monrote v. Britton · Williams v. United States
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that such person has recovered his sanity, (2) that, in the opinion of the superintendent, such person will not in the reasonable future be dangerous to himself or others, and (3) in the opinion of the superintendent, the person is entitled to his unconditional release from the hospital * * *.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“freedom from such abnormal mental condition as would make the individual dangerous to himself or the community in the reasonably foreseeable future.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an exceptional class of peoplepeople who have committed acts forbidden by law, who have obtained verdicts of `not guilty by reason of insanity.'”
2 later decisions 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.