90 Wash. 2d 144 - Allison v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably 122 Wash. 2d 1 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Young (1993), 103 Wash. 2d 249 - Orwick v. City of Seattle (1984)
28 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 O'Connor v. Donaldson · Jackson v. Indiana · 80 Wash. 2d 547 - Sorenson v. City of Bellingham · Lynch v. Baxley · 85 Wash. 2d 176 - Hartman v. Washington State Game Commission
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“issue is a matter of continuing and substantial interest, it presents a question of a public nature which is likely to recur, and it is desirable to provide an authoritative determination for the future guidance of public officials.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“receives information alleging that a person, as a result of a mental disorder, presents a likelihood of serious harm to others or himself . . . after investigation . . . may summon such person to appear at an evaluation and treatment facility for not more than a seventy-two hour evaluation and treatment period”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in custody because he [had] committed acts constituting a felony, and as a result of a mental disorder, [presented] a substantial likelihood of repeating similar acts.”
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.