State v. M. A.’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actual future violence is highly likely.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]pecific acts of violence are not required to establish dangerousness,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“form a foundation for predicting future dangerousness.”
2 later decisions 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.