Emery v. Littlejohn’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1992
14 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
Relies on Spalding v. Vilas · Kendall v. Stokes · Fuller v. State · Valentine v. City of Englewood · Daniels v. Hathaway
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are of the opinion that the power of absolute discharge of [mental] patients from the hospital includes the power to parole or conditionally discharge patients therefrom, and that all acts of the superintendent under this power involve the exercise of discretion on his part of a quasi judicial character. The acts of Dr. Calhoun, here complained of, being official, and calling for the exercise of his discretion, the law seems to be settled beyond controversy that he cannot be called to account for any consequences flowing therefrom, in a civil action for damages instituted by a person claiming to be injured as the result of such discretionary action in the absence of malicious or corrupt action.”
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.