459 So. 2d 406 - Williams v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2018
5 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 Beverly · Florida Doh & Rs v. Career Serv. · 436 So. 2d 320 - Department of Corrections v. Dixon · 424 So. 2d 159 - Williams v. Wilson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once the hospital makes a prima facie showing that the patients meet the criteria, the hearing officer is bound to grant the petition for continued involuntary placement in the absence of contrary evidence from the patient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. D.F. v. State
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.