Campbell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably In Re Detention of Turay (1999), In Re Detention of Thorell (2003)
36 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · United States v. Salerno · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Barefoot v. Estelle · Frye v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“him do it is not a person acting by his free will and, consequently, not one who can be held accountable for his choices. Therefore evidence is necessary to distinguish between those who volitionally act of their free will and those who don't. In re Detention of Campbell, 139 Wash.2d 341, 373 , 986 P.2d 771 (1999) (Sanders, J., dissenting). Consistent with this principle, our previous cases have required evidence of dangerousness as the result of a mental disorder to justify the”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Id. at 255 , 922 P.2d 1304 (quoting Cauthron, 120 Wash.2d at 887, 846 P.2d 502 ). Thus, the question is whether the psychiatric community has accepted the reliability of either the clinical or actuarial method to predict dangerousness. To answer, we must”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In literally hundreds of comparisons over many domains including the prediction of recidivism, clinical judgment has essentially never been found to be superior to actuarial methods, whereas the converse has most often been demonstrated (Grove & Meehl, 1996; Mossman, 1994). Some studies have shown better-than-chance (i.e., they outperformed blind guesswork) performance by clinicians, but many have not. No studies have demonstrated that clinicians' judgments are more accurate than those of laypersons, and there is at least one study showing that they are not (Quinsey & Ambtman, 1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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