Lee v. Wiman’s Empirical Analysis
280 F.2d 257 · 1960
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably Galtieri v. Wainwright (1978), Mims v. United States (1967)
29 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 Glasser v. United States · Brown v. Allen · Darr v. Burford · United States Smith v. Baldi · V. P. Serodino, Inc. 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such defendant shall remain in the custody of the superintendent of the Alabama state hospitals and subject to the observation of and examination by such commission of lunacy for such length of time as may in the judgment of the commission of lunacy be necessary to determine his mental condition so far as it affects his criminal responsibility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Alabama · Lee v. Alabama“[o]ne such inquiry had already been made. it is not made to appear in the petition before us that the defendant became insane since that judgment was rendered”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Alabama · Lee v. Alabama“* * * not being entirely satisfied that the ends of justice had been served, we have given full and complete consideration to the appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Alabama · Lee v. Alabama
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.