State v. Eager.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[M]entally ill people fail to take prescribed medication for a myriad of reasons, including, for example, side effects that may be otherwise dangerous to their health.... In addition, some people are unable to obtain the appropriate medication because of lack of money or access to medical care, or problems with necessary paperwork ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Waweru