Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Bruno (2000), Opinion of the Justices to the Senate (1996)
2 district · 34 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Goldberg v. Kelly · United States v. Salerno · Rochin v. People of California · Duncan v. State of Louisiana
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute ... does not intend punishment and does not in terms impose it, and nothing therein justifies punitive treatment or confinement under any prison conditions, except such as are reasonably required for security ... Indeed, implicit in the statute and its purpose is the obligation to provide an environment conducive to a cure or an alleviation of the dangerous trait”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Greenblatt“Commitment to the treatment center and the treatment an SDP receives there is intended to provide an SDP with an opportunity to overcome his 'general lack of power to control his sexual impulses' so that he can successfully reenter society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. G.F.
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.