831 So. 2d 93 - Westerheide v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably 47 Cal. 4th 1172 - People v. McKee (2010), 31 Cal. 4th 757 - People v. Williams (2003)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 108 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Addington v. Texas · Frye v. United States · Kansas v. Hendricks · Jones v. United States · Kansas v. Crane
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Likely to engage in acts of sexual violence”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“requires [not] a specific jury instruction but rather that there must be proof of `serious difficulty in controlling behavior' in order to civilly commit an individual as a sexually violent predator.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“requires evidence of past sexually violent behavior and a present mental condition that creates a likelihood of such conduct in the future if the person is not incapacitated.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Mitchell · Barker v. State
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.