Wyatt v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Addington v. Texas · O'Connor v. Donaldson · Jackson v. Indiana
Most-quoted passages
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“Alabama's indeterminate involuntary civil confinement of the mentally ill violate[d] the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“indeterminate involuntary civil commitment of the mentally ill”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(a) Adequate notice of the hearing and its purpose shall be given sufficiently in advance of the scheduled proceedings to permit a reasonable opportunity to prepare therefor. "(b) The person proposed to be committed or recommitted shall have the right to attend the hearing unless the Court, after appropriate inquiry, determines that he is so mentally or physically ill as to be incapable of attendance. “(c) The subject of the hearing shall be informed of his right to counsel and to the appointment of counsel if indigent. Where the recommitment of a presently confined patient is sought, a guardian ad litem who is an attorney shall be appointed. “(d) Any person now unlawfully confined shall be entitled to independent expert examination and assistance in preparation for the hearing, by means of court appointment where he cannot afford to retain such services. "(e) If recommitment hearings are to be conducted on the hospital premises, they shall take place in surroundings as non-coercive as possible. In no event shall such hearings be held in patients’ quarters. Appropriate street dress shall be made available to each subject, if not already available to him. “(f) No person shall be committed or recommitted unless the probate judge finds: (i) That he is mentally ill; (ii) That he poses a real and present threat of substantial harm to himself or to others; (iii) That the danger has been evidenced by a recent overt act of the individual; (iv) That there is treatment available for t”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.