Kennedy v. Schafer’s Empirical Analysis
71 F.3d 292 · 1995
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2013
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Alabama State Federation of Labor Local v. McAdory · Spencer Gifts, Inc. v. Olitsky · Ames v. Sundance State Bank
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold only that a Missouri statute may effectively restrain those in Kathleen’s condition and under the care of the State from acting on their own behalf to such an extent as to trigger the protections of the Due Process Clause. It is not Kathleen’s worsening medical condition alone that may have converted her status to that of an involuntary patient. Rather, her worsening condition plus the duty placed on state officials by the statute may have had this effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“may have effectively become an involuntary patient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Torisky v. Schweiker
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.