Overholser v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
283 F.2d 195 · 1960
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 1984
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Anonymous Nos. 16 & 17 v. Arkwright · Ragsdale v. Overholser · Overholser v. Leach · In the Matter of Disbarment of John Harvey Crow · Rogers v. Maron
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such abnormal mental condition as would make the individual dangerous to himself or the community in the reasonably foreseeable future.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Overholser v. Lynch
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.