Waite v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
475 F.2d 392 · 1973
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2008 · most notably Jones v. United States (1983), 22 Cal. 3d 457 - In Re Moye (1978)
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Jackson v. Indiana · Humphrey v. Cady · Baxstrom v. Herold · Mackay v. Nesbett
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Respondent seeks to justify the discrimination [between Sex Crimes Act recommitment hearings and M.H.C. recommitment hearings] on the ground that commitment under the Sex Crimes Act is triggered by criminal conviction; that such commitment is merely an alternative to penal sentencing; and consequently that it does not require the same procedural safeguards afforded in a civil commitment proceeding. That argument arguably has force with respect to an initial commitment under the Sex Crimes Act, which is imposed in lieu of sentence, and is limited in duration to the maximum permissible sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The rational justification for placing the burden of proof on a committee is that his mental illness and dangerousness have previously been convincingly established. In light of those established facts, the law gives effect to a presumption of continuity of status. It comports with normal perceptions of reality — and hence is rational — to assume that, once a given status is proven to exist, it continues to do so in the absence of evidence showing the contrary to be more likely than not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Insofar as the initial commitment is concerned, we can perceive little difference between Humphrey and an acquitee. . . . The circumstance that Humphrey was committed in lieu of sentence, while an acquitee is committed ‘in lieu of conviction’ does not detract from the essential similarity of the two commitments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.