State v. Rachel’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Wisconsin v. Laxton (2002), In Re Commitment of Fisher (2005)
61 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 18 U.S.C. § 287
Relies on United States v. Salerno · Green v. United States · Addington v. Texas · United States v. Halper · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so punitive in form and effect as to render [it] criminal despite”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“constitutes a deprivation of liberty that is subject to due process protection.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“linked to the dangerousness of the committed person”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.