Drewes v. Levine’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 2009
5 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 Barrett v. United States · Lausche v. Commissioner of Public Welfare · Teubner v. State · Frank v. Illinois Farmers Insurance Co. · In Re Restoration to Capacity of Masters
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) is capable of making an acceptable adjustment to open society; (2) is no longer dangerous to the public; and (3) is no longer in need of inpatient treatment and supervision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Caprice v. Gomez · Drewes v. Levine“Although this is not a proceeding where a committed person is seeking discharge from commitment, we believe, in such a case, that the burden of proof should be on the state to show by clear and convincing evidence that commitment should continue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caprice v. Gomez
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.