Jb Lb v. Washington County’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.3d 919 · 1997
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 15 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Tenenbaum v. Williams (1999), Brokaw v. Mercer County (2000)
32 federal appellate · 15 district · 7 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 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Illinois v. Gates · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“forced separation of parent from child, even for a short time, represents a serious impingement”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]ot every statement or act that results in an interference with the rights of intimate association is actionable. Rather, to rise to the level of a constitutional claim, the defendant must direct his or her statements or conduct at the intimate relationship with knowledge that the statements or conduct will adversely affect that relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is evident that there was interference with plaintiffs' rights of familial association because L.B. was physically removed from her home and from her parents for a period of almost 18 hours, which included an overnight stay in a pre- arranged shelter home.”
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.