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Dutil’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

64
cited by 64 later decisions
8
states following
January 2023
most recently cited

10 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Ravnikar v. Bogojavlensky (2003), 31 Cal. 4th 757 - People v. Williams (2003)

10 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 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 United States v. Salerno · Kansas v. Hendricks · Foucha v. Louisiana · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Kansas v. Crane

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

  1. “'uncontrolled or uncontrollable desires'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “a general lack of power to control ... sexual impulses”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. ““ ‘Sexually dangerous person’, any person who has been (i) convicted of or adjudicated as a delinquent juvenile or youthful offender by reason of a sexual offense and who suffers from a mental abnormality or personality disorder which makes the person likely to engage in sexual offenses if not confined to a secure facility; (ii) charged with a sexual offense and was determined to be incompetent to stand trial and who suffers from a mental abnormality or personality disorder which makes such person likely to engage in sexual offenses if not confined to a secure facility; or (iii) previously adjudicated as such by a court of the commonwealth and whose misconduct in sexual matters indicates a general lack of power to control his sexual impulses, as evidenced by repetitive or compulsive sexual misconduct by either violence against any victim, or aggression against any victim under the age of 16 years, and who, as a result, is likely to attack or otherwise inflict injury on such victims because of his uncontrolled or uncontrollable desires.””
    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.