In Re Linehan’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably In Re Detention of Thorell (2003), In Re the Commitment of W.Z. (2002)
2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Relies on Kansas v. Hendricks · State v. Moseng · Gleason v. Geary · Matter of Welfare of JM · Commissioner of Revenue v. Richardson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statutory requirements serve to limit involuntary civil confinement to those who suffer from a volitional impairment rendering them dangerous beyond their control. ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ [This] adequately distinguishes Hendricks from [those] who are perhaps more properly dealt with exclusively through criminal proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Minnesota Act explicitly states that `it is not necessary to prove that the person has an inability to control the person's sexual impulses.'”
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.