183 Or. App. 520 - State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a person can be deemed dangerous to self if he or she has established a pattern in the past of taking certain actions that lead to self-destructive conduct, and then he or she begins to follow the pattern again.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 291 Or. App. 679 - State v. T. W. (In re T. W.) · 239 Or. App. 576 - State v. DR

2. “`apprehensions, speculations and conjecture are not sufficient to prove a need for mental commitment.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 239 Or. App. 576 - State v. DR · 240 Or. App. 75 - State v. BB

3. “[A]lthough appellant evidently wanders the streets frequently, the record contains no indication that this activity has ever led to injury. Thus, this case does not present a situation in which authorities interrupted a sequence of events that has, in the past, led to disaster.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 239 Or. App. 576 - State v. DR