Varner v. Monohan’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.3d 861 · 2006
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2021
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Lockyer Attorney General of California v. Andrade · Plyler v. Doe · Heller v. Doe Ex Rel. Doe · Kansas v. Hendricks · Chapman 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Crane held that the Constitution requires findings that separate inability to control from unwillingness to control— that is, to separate the sick person from the vicious and amoral one. The former is a proper subject of civil commitment; the wicked person, by contrast, must be left to the criminal law (with recidivist enhancements). 534 U.S. at 413 , 122 S.Ct. 867 . The Court thought this rule necessary to prevent fear of recidivism from leading to indefinite preventative detention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.