Jaramillo v. Jaramillo’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Allsup's Convenience Stores, Inc. v. North River Insurance (1998), Hoover (Letourneau) v. Hoover (2000)
76 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Santosky v. Kramer · Stanley v. Illinois · Shapiro v. Thompson · United States v. Jackson · Lehr v. Robertson
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[F]reedom of personal choice in matters of family life is a fundamental liberty interest." Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745, 753 , [ 102 S.Ct. 1388, 1394 , 71 L.Ed.2d 599 ]... (1982) (requiring stringent standards for termination of parental rights). This freedom of personal choice includes "the freedom of a parent and child to maintain, cultivate, and mold their ongoing relationship." Franz v. United States, 707 F.2d 582, 595 (D.C.Cir.1983)....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a distant relocation by one parent will inevitably trigger a change of civreum-stances-the inability of the parties to implement their parenting agreement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t makes no difference that the parent who wishes to relocate is not prohibited outright from doing so; a legal rule that operates to chill the exercise of the right, absent a sufficient state interest to do so, is as impermissible as one that bans exercise of the right altogether.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Fredman v. Fredman · Bates v. Tesar
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.