Schleifer ex rel. Schleifer v. City of Charlottesville’s Empirical Analysis
159 F.3d 843 · 1998
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Hutchins v. District of Columbia (1999), Ramos v. Town of Vernon (2000)
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Terry v. Ohio · Santosky v. Kramer · Roe v. Wade · Gault
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(Emphasis added). Rather than supporting the parental role, this curfew supersedes it. It reflects the”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In light of the case law, two things seem clear. First, children do possess at least qualified rights, so an ordinance which restricts their liberty to the extent that this one does should be subject to more than rational basis review. Second, because children do not possess the same rights as adults, the ordinance should be subject to less than the strictest level of scrutiny. See Carey v. Population Servs. Int'l, 431 U.S. 678, 693, n. 15 [ 52 L.Ed.2d 675 , 97 S.Ct. 2010 ] (1977) (plurality opinion) (when minors are involved the level of scrutiny `is apparently less rigorous than the”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]ot every state restriction of a child's freedom derivatively abridges the fundamental rights of parents.”
5 later decisions 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.