State v. Dennis H.’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Maurin v. Hall (2004), 383 Wis. 2d 1 - Ascaris Mayo v. Wisconsin Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund (2018)
49 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 O'Connor v. Donaldson · Schmidt v. Lessard · Lessard v. Schmidt · 413 F. Supp. 1318 - Lessard v. Schmidt
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court must balance the desires of mental health professionals, friends, and family members who believe that care and treatment are in the best interests of a person who is mentally ill, and the constitutional liberty interests of individuals to be free from unwanted and unnecessary restraints. In recent decades, this balance has been struck by requiring proof of mental illness and imminent dangerousness to self or others before permitting involuntary civil commitment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.