In Re RL’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2021
17 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 Humphrey v. Cady · 98 Wash. 2d 276 - Matter of Harris · Doe v. Gallinot · In Re MCP · In re M.C.P.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]mong the factors the court may consider [in determining whether voluntary treatment is feasible] are the patient's capacity to consent to voluntary treatment, the impact voluntary treatment may have on the patient's treatment plan, and whether the patient would, in fact, accept voluntary treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re ET“the State's burden to show that voluntary treatment is not feasible arises only after the proposed patient raises that issue,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re ET“to ensure that the patient receives treatment in the least restrictive manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In re G.G.
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.