Perreira v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Hartford Insurance v. Manor Inn of Bethesda, Inc. (1994), Higgins v. Salt Lake County (1993)
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 13 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 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · 27 Cal. 3d 741 - Thompson v. County of Alameda · Bradley Center, Inc. v. Wessner · 100 Wash. 2d 421 - Petersen v. State · Littleton v. Good Samaritan Hospital & Health Center
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'an expression of the sum total of those considerations of policy which lead the law to say that the plaintiff is [or is not] entitled to protection'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'The reason for the distinction may be said to lie in the fact that by”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the existence of a special relationship between a psychiatrist and an involuntarily committed mental patient and the resulting degree of control which the psychiatrist has over the patient as a result of that relationship; the foreseeability of harm to others from the failure of the psychiatrist to take protective action for the benefit of others; the social utility of the psychiatric decision to release an involuntarily committed patient; the magnitude of the burden of guarding against violent acts committed by an involuntarily committed mental patient subsequent to release; and the practical consequences of placing that burden upon the psychiatrist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Jordan
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.