Francois v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
850 F.2d 231 · 1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018
4 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Marshall v. Lonberger · O'Connor v. Donaldson · Jackson v. Indiana · Humphrey v. Cady · Baxstrom v. Herold
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Mental institutions exist for the benefit of those who can be helped by care and treatment or who require custodial attention. They are not substitutes for prisons.' Nor can they be permitted to become such.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hopkins v. Lynn“behavior, significant threats or inaction supports a reasonable expectation that there is a substantial risk that he will inflict physical or severe emotional harm upon his own person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hopkins v. Lynn“[C]onfinement of insanity-acquittees solely on a finding of dangerousness ... [makes] the mental institution the substitute for the prison in Louisiana [and] violates the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.