In Re Gamble’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Garrity v. Gallen (1981), Silva v. Botsch (1980)
5 district · 27 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 Novosel v. Helgemoe · Hickey's Appeal · State v. Gregoire · State v. Aubert · Opinion of the Justices
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who is legally declared incompetent is substantially deprived of liberty. An incompetent person is reduced to the status of a child and cannot dispose of his property or determine his place of residence. He cannot give his informed consent to medical treatment. The appointed guardian protects the incompetent person’s rights by caring for his person and his estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garrity v. Gallen
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.