James Covington v. David W. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
419 F.2d 617 · 1969
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 20 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Wolff v. McDonnell (1974), Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Ruckelshaus (1971)
59 federal appellate · 20 district · 80 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
Relies on Shelton v. Tucker · Aptheker v. Secretary of State · Baxstrom v. Herold · In re Bonner · Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Northeast Airlines, Inc.
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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the least restrictive alternative consistent with the legitimate purposes of a commitment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Beverly · Hamilton v. Love“[a] statute sanctioning such a drastic curtailment of the rights of citizens must be narrowly, even grudgingly, construed in order to avoid deprivations of liberty without due process of law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re: J.C.N. · Matter of Lomax“it has made a permissible and reasonable decision in view of the relevant information and within a broad range of discretion.”
3 later decisions 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.