United States v. Ecker’s Empirical Analysis
479 F.2d 1206 · 1973
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 1999
12 federal appellate · 7 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 Jackson v. Indiana · Baxstrom v. Herold · Bolton v. Harris · United States v. Allen · Dixon v. Jacobs
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute directs the court to order release if the court finds that the person has recovered his sanity and will not in the reasonable future be dangerous to himself or others. If the court does not so find, it is directed to order the person returned to the hospital Even though an order of return need not be accompanied by a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“First ... we are convinced that the standard for summary disposition is met, on this record, by the Government. Second, we see no real prejudice to the rights of appellant in so doing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“real doubts about the sufficiency of the investigation of Ecker's condition”
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.