Mochen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2000
18 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 Baltimore Potomac Railroad Company v. Charles Emmet Cumberland · 192 Cal. App. 2d 442 - DeMartini v. Alexander Sanitarium, Inc. · Williams v. . Hays · Harris v. . Uebelhoer · Krom v. Schoonmaker
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he disability may fall short of psychosis or severe retardation and the act may be a voluntary judgment by the patient but still be the product of impulse or irrational behavior beyond his control.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“what an ordered society requires in the way of care toward others.”
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.