In Re Dibley’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2019
7 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 In Re the Alleged Mental Illness Of: Cordie · Matter of Malm · Matter of Harhut · Sather v. State
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact “that a patient may become symptom-free during hospitalization” does not compel a discharge from commitment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of Schauer“more pertinent to the weight to be afforded the testimony than to its admissibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of Clements
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.