Jackson v. Indiana’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
410 federal appellate · 130 district · 1,264 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,249 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably United States v. Salerno (1987), Addington v. Texas (1979)
410 federal appellate · 130 district · 1,264 state decisions — followed in 49 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 Pate v. Robinson · Robinson v. State of California · Powell v. Texas · Humphrey v. Cady
Cited together with Addington v. Texas · O'Connor v. Donaldson · Humphrey v. Cady · Baxstrom v. Herold · Jones v. United States
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 2,249 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the least, due process requires that the nature and duration of commitment bear some reasonable relation to the purpose for which the individual is committed.”
127 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Baxstrom did not deal with the standard for release, but its rationale is applicable here. The harm to the individual is just as great if the State, without reasonable justification, can apply standards making his commitment a permanent one when standards generally applicable to all others afford him a substantial opportunity for early release.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a substantial probability that he will attain ... capacity in the foreseeable future.”
14 later decisions 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.