Lee v. Kolb’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Crowell v. Benson · Speiser v. Randall
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The responsibility and burden of determining whether to release an insanity acquitee, who implicitly has been found to have committed the criminal acts for which he was tried, need not be abdicated by the judiciary and left entirely to the psychiatric community. We find judicial approval to have a rational basis in that such requirement will both provide to the public additional assurance against premature releases of the dangerously mental ill and safeguard the due process rights of the insanity acquitee by fostering an even-handed application of the standards for discharge . . . .” Lee v. Kolb, W.D.N.Y., 449 F.Supp. 1368, 1381 , vacated, 2 Cir., 591 F.2d 1330 (1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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