Young v. Weston’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Kansas v. Hendricks (1997), Mark Seling Superintendent Special Commitment Center v. Andre Brigham Young (2001)
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Gerstein v. Pugh · United States v. Salerno · Rochin v. People of California · Addington v. Texas · Zinermon v. Burch
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a civil as well as a criminal sanction constitutes punishment when the sanction as applied in the individual case serves the goals of punishment . . . [A] civil sanction that cannot fairly be said solely to serve a remedial purpose, but rather can only be explained as also serving either retributive or deterrent purposes, is punishment, as we have come to understand the term.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a step away from substituting confinements for dangerousness for our present system which, with only narrow exceptions and aside from permissible confinements for mental illness, incarcerates only those who are proved beyond reasonable doubt to have violated a criminal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a congenital or acquired condition affecting the emotional or volitional capacity which predisposes the person to the commission of criminal sexual acts,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.