In Re Osborne’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably In Re Quinlan (1976), Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz (1977)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital v. Heston · National Labor Relations Board v. Imperial House Condominium, Inc. · 239 F. Supp. 752 - United States v. George
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of the patient's personal desires and ability for rational choice. In this way the court can always know, to the extent possible, that the judgment is that of the individual concerned and not that of those who believe, however well-intentioned, that they speak for the person whose life is in the balance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“took note of a possible overriding state interest based on the fact that the patient had two young children. It was concluded, however, that the maturity of this lucid patient, his long-standing beliefs and those of his family did not justify state intervention... . [I]t was revealed that a close family relationship existed which went beyond the immediate members, [and] that the children would be well cared for... .”
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.