Maag v. Wessler’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 773 · 1991
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Bias v. Moynihan (2007), al-Kidd v. Ashcroft (2009)
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor · O'Connor v. Donaldson · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director · McWherter v. Brooks
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although there are few decisions that discuss the fourth amendment standard in the context of seizure of the mentally ill, all have recognized the proposition that such a seizure is analogous to a criminal arrest and must therefore be supported by probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“distinct right to be free from an unreasonable governmental seizure of the person for whatever purpose”
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.