Janicsko v. Pellman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the relevant provisions of the Mental Health Code were enacted ... to encourage commitments, any more than state repossession laws are passed because states want to encourage creditors to repossess their debtors' goods.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. S.P., a Citizen of Takoma Park, Maryland v. The City of Takoma Park, Maryland Robert Phillips, in His Official Capacity as Chief of the Takoma Park Police Department Brian Rich, Individually and in His Capacity as an Officer of the Takoma Park Police Department Unknown and Unidentified Police Officers of the Takoma Police Department Who Were Present at and Involved in the Incidents Complained of Herein, Individually and in Their Capacity as Officers of the Takoma Park Police Department Washington Adventist Hospital Cyril Hardy James Buxbaum Paul O'Brien Carla Cunningham Marlene Wesley, American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, Inc., Amicus Curiae, Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger, L.L.P., Movant · Sp v. City of Takoma Park Maryland

2. “to determine if it replaces private physician or facility discretion with state mandated standards and to determine whether the state compels or encourages a facility’s or physician’s actions with regard to involuntary commitment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rubenstein v. Benedictine Hospital