Oldfield v. Benavidez’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably State Ex Rel. Children, Youth & Families Department v. Ruth Anne E. (1999), Ridenour v. Ridenour (1995)
45 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Santosky v. Kramer · Stanley v. Illinois
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he parameters of the right have never been clearly established, and the right is not absolute or unqualified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lucero v. Salazar
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.