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← 394 Mass. 502 - Thompson

Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
August 2015
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2015

3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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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 Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Baxstrom v. Herold · Society for Good Will to Retarded Children, Inc. v. Cuomo · Andrews · Commonwealth v. Nassar

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “to those cases where there are unjustified differences in statutory schemes which have 'generally similar functions and effects.' " Thompson rejected a claim that Treatment Center patients were entitled to an annual review similar to the one afforded confinees under Chapter 123. The SJC reasoned that "[b]ecause confinement at the treatment center as a sexually dangerous person, and civil commitment to Bridgewater State hospital, do not have 'generally similar functions and effects,' ... the differences in the availability of less restrictive confinement under c. 123 and c. 123A are fully justified.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Pearson v. Fair
  2. “to those cases where there are unjustified differences in statutory schemes which have 'generally similar functions and effects.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Pearson v. Fair

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.