People v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 60 state decisions

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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) To secure for each person who may be mentally ill such care and treatment as will be suited to the needs of the person and to insure that such care and treatment are skillfully and humanely administered with full respect for the person’s dignity and personal integrity; (b) To deprive a person of his liberty for purposes of treatment or care only when less restrictive alternatives are unavailable and only when his safety or the safety of others is endangered; (c) To provide the fullest possible measure of privacy, dignity, and other rights to persons undergoing care and treatment for mental illness; (d) To encourage the use of voluntary rather than coercive measures to secure treatment and care for mental illness.... (2) To carry out these purposes, the provisions of this article shall be liberally construed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Goebel v. Colorado Department of Institutions

2. “[T]he statutory procedure [described in section 27-10-107] brings both the educated opinion of the expert and the common sense judgment of the judge or jury to bear on whether short-term involuntary treatment is necessary. This procedure, involving a mixture of medical and social or legal judgments, was obviously adopted to put a check on the discretion of the professionals responsible for deciding whether certification is justified. See Humphrey v. Cady, 405 U.S. 504 , 92 S.Ct. 1048 , 31 L.Ed.2d 394 (1972).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Stevens

3. “a condition in which a person, as a result of mental illness, is unable to take care of his basic personal needs or is making irrational or grossly irresponsible decisions concerning his person and lacks the capacity to understand this is so. A person of any age may be “gravely disabled” under this definition, but the term does not include mentally retarded persons by reason of such retardation alone.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. People in Interest of Dveirin