27 Or. App. 821 - Dietrich v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1993
2 federal appellate · 10 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Termination of a trial visit [conditional release] is not an isolated event. If it were, then a denial of liberty based upon the sworn statements of two people and the judgment of an admitting physician, standing alone, would be unconstitutional for lack of due process. Rather, it is one of a sequence of events within a course of confinement and treatment. It is the procedural protection which surrounds that course of confinement and treatment which must be measured against the Due Process Clause to determine if it is appropriate to the public purpose to be served and to the nature of the individual loss to be guarded against." 558 P.2d at 361 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the legislature could [have] reasonably [concluded] that where the trial visit lasts for over one-half ... the maximum duration of the involuntary commitment, the ... [patient] has been at liberty for long enough a time that an additional hearing would be desirable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Application of True“profound differences of nature, degree and function between [parole and conditional release] which [made] ... different due process considerations appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Application of True
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.