Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “It is not inherently inconsistent for us to recognize that a measure is intended to prevent “railroading” of “proposed patients” while at the same time holding that “commitment” means something more than the two-hour detention and immediate re lease of a person not found to be a danger to himself or others.... Although [the complainant] may have been a “proposed patient” ... it does not appear from the record that he was ever admitted as a patient.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shike v. State