83 Wash. 2d 253 - In Re Levias’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably 122 Wash. 2d 1 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Young (1993), Coughlin Et Al. v. Stachulak (1976)
3 federal appellate · 25 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 · Lessard v. Schmidt · Heryford v. Parker
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exacts the duty that every element essential to proving committable mental illness be demonstrated to a degree essentially corresponding to that necessary for commitment in criminal proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“civil counterpart of the criminal reasonable doubt standard,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.”
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.