State v. Metz’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
207 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 207 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Krafick v. Krafick (1995), State v. Courchesne (2003)
207 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 City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Dandridge v. Williams · Reynolds v. Sims · Addington v. Texas · Dunn v. Blumstein
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 207 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w'e are initially guided by well defined principles of statutory interpretation. The court's "fundamental objective is to ascertain and give effect to the apparent intent of the legislature.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Important considerations of policy suggest that the legislature would not have intended to impose, even on an insanity acquittee, a never-ending burden of rebutting an indefinite presumption of continuing insanity and dangerousness. The considered view of professional commentators who have promulgated model rules for the commitment of insanity acquittees is that, after expiration of a stated term of commitment, fairness, convenience and symmetry require an insanity acquittee to be treated like others committed for mental illness. See ABA Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards (1989) pt. VII, pp. 435-36.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“After the expiration of a maximum term of confinement (for the re-committee), it is difficult to find a constitutional justification for a categorical distinction between an insanity acquittee and an incarcerated prisoner who was transferred to a mental hospital while he was serving his criminal sentence. In each instance, the purpose of commitment `is to treat the individual's mental illness and protect him and society from his potential dangerousness'.”
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.