Kansas v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
453 federal appellate · 174 district · 1,928 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,035 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Hudson v. United States (1997), Smith v. Doe (2003)
453 federal appellate · 174 district · 1,928 state decisions — followed in 45 states
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 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Blockburger v. United States · Bell v. Wolfish · Gault · United States v. Salerno
Cited together with Kansas v. Crane · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Smith v. Doe · Addington v. Texas · Hudson 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 3,035 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a small segment of particularly dangerous individuals”
233 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“establishes procedures for the civil commitment of persons who, due to a `mental abnormality' or a `personality disorder,' are likely to engage in `predatory acts of sexual violence.'”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he fact that “antisocial personality disorder,” standing alone without any other diagnosis or evidence, could never lead to a finding that a defendant, without a history of sex offenses, is a “sexually violent person,” does not mean that that condition, in combination with evidence satisfying the additional criteria of § 980.01(7), stats., cannot constitutionally support that finding.... It is that additional coupling that, in Justice Kennedy’s words, “offer[s] a solid basis for concluding that civil detention is justified.””
20 later decisions 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.