Bouse v. Cameron’s Empirical Analysis
373 F.2d 451 · 1966
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 16 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2001 · most notably Gault (1967), O'Connor v. Donaldson (1975)
91 federal appellate · 16 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Robinson v. State of California · Leland v. Oregon · Baxstrom v. Herold · Lynch v. Overholser
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires the hospital to show that initial and periodic inquiries are made into the needs and conditions of the patient with a view to providing suitable treatment for him, and that the program provided is suited to his particular needs.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““absent treatment, the hospital is transform [ed] . . . into a penitentiary where one could be held indefinitely for no convicted offense, . . .”. (at 453)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“continuing failure to provide suitable and adequate treatment cannot be justified by lack of staff or facilities.”
2 later decisions 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.