Bartley v. Kremens’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Parham v. J. R. (1979), Kremens v. Bartley (1977)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Application for voluntary commitment to a facility for examination, treatment and care may be made by: * * * * * "(2) A parent, guardian or individual standing in loco parentis to the person to be admitted, if such person is eighteen years of age or younger. "(b) The application shall be in writing, signed by the applicant in the presence of at least one witness. When an application is made, the director of the facility shall cause an examination to be made. If it is determined that the person named in the application is in need of care or observation, he shall be committed for a period not to exceed thirty days.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(a) Application for voluntary admission to a facility for examination, treatment and care may be made by: * * * * * "(2) A parent, guardian or individual standing in loco parentis to the person to be admitted, if such person is eighteen years of age or younger. "(b) When an application is made, the director of the facility shall cause an examination to be made. If it is determined that the person named in the application is in need of care or observation, he may be admitted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(a) Application for voluntary admission to a facility for examination, treatment and care may be made by:”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.