In Re Beverly’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Addington v. Texas (1979), 831 So. 2d 93 - Westerheide v. State (2002)
88 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Connally v. General Construction Co. · O'Connor v. Donaldson · Leland v. Oregon · Hawaii v. Standard Oil Co. of Cal.
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.
“"394.467 Involuntary hospitalization. "(1) CRITERIA A person may be involuntarily hospitalized if he is mentally ill and because of his illness is: "(a) Likely to injure himself or others if allowed to remain at liberty, or "(b) In need of care or treatment and lacks sufficient capacity to make a responsible application on his own behalf."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he subject of an involuntary civil commitment proceeding has the right to the effective assistance of counsel at all significant stages of the commitment process. By significant stages we mean all judicial proceedings and any other official proceeding at which a decision is, or can be, made which may result in a detrimental change to the conditions of the subject's liberty.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Porter v. State · Williams v. State“[t]here is a differentiation between persons in need of mental treatment and persons who [but for incompetency] violated the criminal laws.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. State · State v. Turner
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.