Singleton v. Cecil’s Empirical Analysis
133 F.3d 631 · 1998
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2019
10 federal appellate ·
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 Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Washington v. Glucksberg · Roberts v. United States Jaycees · Zablocki v. Redhail
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant can be held liable for violating a right of intimate association only if the plaintiff shows an intent to interfere with the relationship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“action having only a collateral effect on family decisions typically does not violate [the right to marry],”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“does not invalidate every state action that has some impact on marriage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.