Nelson v. Heyne’s Empirical Analysis
491 F.2d 352 · 1974
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Westlake v. Lucas (1976), Wyatt v. Aderholt (1974)
42 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 15 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Furman v. Georgia · Kent v. United States · Robinson v. State of California
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`right to treatment' includes the right to minimum acceptable standards of care.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“formal certification by a district judge is not always required in a marginally final case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We hold today only that the use of disciplinary beatings and tranquilizing drugs in the circumstances shown by this record violates plaintiffs’ 14th Amendment right protecting them from cruel and unusual punishment. We do not intend that penal and reform institutional physicians cannot prescribe necessary tranquilizing drugs in appropriate cases. Our concern is with actual and potential abuses under policies where juveniles are beaten with an instrument causing serious’injuries, and drugs are administered to juveniles intramuscularly by staff, without trying medication short of drugs and without adequate medical guidance and prescription.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.