In Re Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 1979 · most notably State v. Krol (1975), United States v. Greene (1973)
12 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
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Most-quoted passages
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“Basically viewed, the power of the state to restrain insane persons and confine them in some asylum is an exercise of the police power deemed in its operation to be conducive to the public welfare. The motive supporting such legislation is the desire to protect the public or the person confined, or both. An unwarranted deprivation of personal liberty is more than unconscionable. The permanent incarceration of a sane person in such an environment without hope of release is probably little less punitive than a sentence of death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is no less difficult to evolve a standard chart of behavior sufficient to justify the continued confinement of an alleged insane person than it is to precisely define insanity. Most of the attempts to define insanity are more sententious than definitive, sometimes leaving some shadowy margin between the perceptible boundaries of sanity and insanity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“find and determine whether the person in whose behalf the writ was sued out, is sane or insane.”
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.