Garcia v. Spaulding’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4245 · 18 U.S.C. § 4246 · 18 U.S.C. § 4247 · 18 U.S.C. § 4248 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Duncan v. Walker · Carlson v. Green · George Duncan Superintendent Great Meadow Correctional Facility v. Sherman Walker · Maleng v. Cook
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a patient seeks precisely what § 4247(h) provides -- discharge from civil commitment -- the proper venue would presumptively be the committing court. But where he attacks the manner of execution of his commitment without challenging the validity of his continued confinement, his claim properly sounds in habeas . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cockerham v. Boncher“[t]he fact that [petitioner] could challenge the validity of his commitment through § 4247(h) does not constitute an alternative avenue of relief when he does not seek to have his commitment declared invalid and then to be discharged, but rather seeks alternative placement to serve his valid commitment”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cockerham v. Boncher“[n]othing contained in section 4243 . . . precludes a person who is committed under . . . such section[] from establishing by writ of habeas corpus the illegality of his detention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cockerham v. Boncher
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.