Warren v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
632 F.2d 925 · 1980
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Foucha v. Louisiana (1992), Rodriguez v. City of New York (1995)
9 federal appellate · 9 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Addington v. Texas · Baxstrom v. Herold · Finch v. Connor
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Foremost among the evidence before the state courts was the fact that appellant already had committed the most extreme form of violence: the killing of another human being. His acquittal on grounds of insanity constituted proof beyond a reasonable doubt that he once had been a danger to society. While the insanity acquittal did not constitute dispositive proof of present dangerousness, it was substantial evidence that appellant remained a danger to society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]o meet due process demands ... the proof [supporting involuntary commitment] must be greater than the preponderance-of-the-evidence standard ...”
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.