67 Ill. 2d 544 - In Re Stephenson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 233 Ill. 2d 345 - In Re Alfred HH (2009), 164 Ill. 2d 207 - Bazydlo v. Volant (1995)
161 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · McKeiver v. Pennsylvania · Woodby v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * represents a serious attempt to provide beneficial treatment and care for the mentally ill with the minimum ostracism and confinement consistent with the protection of the public. * * * Moreover, the individual involved, as well as society, has a strong interest in getting needed care or treatment which will enable him to function normally * * *."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“. any person afflicted with a mental disorder, not including a person who is mentally retarded, as defined in this Act, if that person, as a result of such mental disorder, is reasonably expected at the time the determination is being made or within a reasonable time thereafter to intentionally or unintentionally physically injure himself or other persons, or is unable to care for himself so as to guard himself from physical injury or to provide for his own physical needs. This term does not include a person whose mental processes have merely been weakened or impaired by reason of advanced years.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“9 9 More to the point, we believe, is an appraisal of the interests of the allegedly mentally ill individual and the society of which he is a part. Those interests are, in part, competing. The fundamental liberty interest of the person facing commitment is self-evident. The Mental Health Code 999 reflects a concern for that interest and 9 9 9 represents a serious attempt to provide beneficial treatment and care for the mentally ill with minimum ostracism and confinement consistent with protection of the public. Our free society’s interest in prospectively protecting itself from dangerous or harmful conduct, standing alone, suffices to justify only minimal infringements upon an individual’s personal liberty. 999 # # # 9 9 9 we believe the appropriate standard of proof to be clear and convincing evidence. It is, in our opinion, compatible with the competing interests and is consistent with due process. It requires a high level of certainty before finding an individual in need of mental treatment and curtailing his liberty, but does not place an impossible burden on the State in proving its case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.