Winters v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 65 · 1971
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 10 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2006 · most notably Parham v. J. R. (1979), Mills v. Rogers (1982)
24 federal appellate · 10 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 Monroe v. Pape · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Reynolds v. 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [T]he law is quite clear in New York that a finding of “mental illness” even by a judge or jury, and commitment to a hospital, does not raise even a presumption that the patient is “incompetent” or unable adequately to manage his own affairs. Absent a specific finding of incompetence, the mental patient retains the right to sue or defend in his own name, to sell or dispose of his property, to marry, draft a will, and, in general to manage his own affairs. (Citations omitted).”
2 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.