Anonymous v. Carmichael’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “In order for a hospital to retain a patient for involuntary psychiatric care under New York law, the hospital must establish, `by clear and convincing evidence, that the patient is mentally ill and in need of continued, supervised care and treatment, and that the patient poses a substantial threat of physical harm to himself and/or others[.]'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ernst v. Stone