Benham v. Ledbetter’s Empirical Analysis
785 F.2d 1480 · 1986
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2002
12 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Addington v. Texas · Leary v. United States · O'Connor v. Donaldson · Jackson v. Indiana
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 committed acquittee is entitled to release when he has recovered his sanity or is no longer dangerous.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he placement of the burden of proof on the insanity acquittee at the release hearing does not violate either the equal protection clause or the due process clause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“despite our sense of caution, in applying the Jones holding to an insanity acquittee in release hearings .held years after the criminal act, we see no empirical basis offered by the class that this presumption is so irrelevant to some members of ■the class as to violate the due process clause.” Id. at 1490 . This Court further stated that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.