In Re Hatley’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 145 N.C. App. 434 - Smith Ex Rel. Smith v. Smith (2001), 59 Ill. App. 3d 500 - People v. Garcia (1978)
90 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 Sibron v. State of New York Peters · O'Connor v. Donaldson · 18 Ill. App. 3d 315 - People v. Sansone · In Re John Ballay, A/K/A Figeret Hoxha, Patient · 21 Ill. App. 3d 889 - People v. Sciara
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“possibility that [R]espondent's commitment in this case might ... form the basis for a future commitment, along with other obvious collateral legal consequences[.]”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“even when the terms of the judgment below have been fully carried out, if collateral legal consequences of an adverse nature can reasonably be expected to result therefrom, then the issue is not moot and the appeal has continued legal significance.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“by clear, cogent, and convincing evidence that the respondent is mentally ill and dangerous to self ... or dangerous to others....”
4 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.