Lappe v. Loeffelholz’s Empirical Analysis
815 F.2d 1173 · 1987
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Stewart v. Baldwin County Board of Education (1990), Trulock v. Freeh (2001)
23 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs · Bounds v. Smith · Wood v. Strickland
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“apply well-developed legal principles in carrying out their duties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) release from hospitalization and termination of the proceedings if the committed person “does not ... require further treatment for serious mental impairment;” (2) full-time care and treatment if the person is “seriously mentally impaired;” (3) treatment as an outpatient or on another “appropriate basis,” if the person is “seriously mentally impaired” and in need of treatment but not full-time hospitalization; and (4) alternative placement, if the person is “seriously mentally impaired” and in need of full-time custody and care, “but is unlikely to benefit from further treatment in a hospital.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As the qualified immunity defense has evolved, it provides ample protection to all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sparr v. Ward
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.