Millard v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
406 F.2d 964 · 1968
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Humphrey v. Cady (1972), United States v. Brawner (1972)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 Specht v. Patterson · Silver v. New York Stock Exchange · Aptheker v. Secretary of State · Baxstrom v. Herold · State of Minnesota Pearson v. Probate Court of Ramsey County Minn
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“person, not insane, who by a course of repeated misconduct in sexual matters has evidenced such lack of power to control his or her sexual impulses as to be dangerous to other persons because he or she is likely to attack or otherwise inflict injury, loss, pain, or other evil on the objects of his or her desire.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]either the court nor the jury is bound by ad hoc definitions or conclusions as to what experts state is a disease or defect. What psychiatrists may consider a “mental disease or defect” for clinical purposes, where their concern is treatment, may or may not be the same as mental disease or defect for the jury’s purpose of determining criminal responsibility. 21”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It may be true that the limbo of hospital life prevented the sort of tensions toward women that have plagued appellant in the past from building up. But by the same token it was by the Government’s choice, and not his, that he has no greater opportunity to prove his self-control. 31”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.