Thomas B. Cross v. David W. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
418 F.2d 1095 · 1969
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Humphrey v. Cady (1972), United States v. Barker (1975)
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Gault · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Leary v. United States
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“promise of treatment has served only to bring an illusion of benevolence to what is essentially a warehousing operation for social misfits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the court, in stating its opinion on the point, believed it necessary to decide the question or was simply using it by way of illustration of the case at hand”
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.