Roland E. Matthews, Jr. v. Kenneth L. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
420 F.2d 607 · 1970
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1997 · most notably Humphrey v. Cady (1972), Campbell v. McGruder (1978)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 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 Bolling v. Sharpe · Johnson v. Avery · Baxstrom v. Herold · Scales v. United States · Bolton v. Harris
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person while serving sentence of any court of the District of Columbia for crime, in a District of Columbia penal institution, and who, in the opinion of the Director of the Department of Corrections of the District of Columbia, is mentally ill, shall be referred by such Director to the psychiatrist functioning under section 24-106, and if such psychiatrist certifies that the person is mentally ill, this shall be sufficient to authorize the Director to transfer such person to a hospital for the mentally ill to receive care and treatment during the continuance of his mental illness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Hurt · In re Khamvongsa
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.