State v. O'CONNELL’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably State v. JS (2002), In Re PS (1997)
32 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 Roe v. Wade · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Krupp v. Krupp · In Re John Ballay, A/K/A Figeret Hoxha, Patient · In Re MAC
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.
“[t]he legal disabilities radiating from the label of mentally incompetent are myriad”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Collette · State v. JS“does not necessarily vitiate the collateral consequences of the contested commitment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re PS“capable of repetition, yet evading review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re JS
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.