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← 283 AD 245 - St. George v. State

St. George v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1954

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 1992
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 9 E.H. Smith 201 - Pike v. . Honsinger · Excelsior Ins. Co. of N.Y. v. State of New York · 15 La. App. 524 - Cappel v. Pierson · Emery v. Littlejohn · 82 F. Supp. 430 - Kendrick v. United States

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “modern concept of handling cases of mental illness is treatment, not simply incarceration,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “it is likely to be safe for others and helpful to the patient.”
    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.