Kesselbrenner v. Anonymous’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably State v. Carter (1974), Scott v. Plante (1981)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Roe v. Wade · Robinson v. State of California · Shelton v. Tucker · Jackson v. Indiana · Aptheker v. Secretary of State
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such mentally ill persons held under any other than a civil process as may be committed to the department [of Correction] by courts of criminal jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“drift into decline as a pioneer mental hospital and into constantly improved status as a security institution.”
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.