Wilkinson v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
182 F.3d 89 · 1999
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Tenenbaum v. Williams (1999), Tuan Van Tran v. Gary Lindsey Salinas Valley State Prisons (2000)
24 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Santosky v. Kramer · Stanley v. Illinois · Imbler v. Pachtman · County of Sacramento v. Lewis
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`compelling governmental interest in the protection of minor children, particularly in circumstances where the protection is considered necessary as against the parents themselves.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“An investigation passes constitutional muster provided simply that case workers have a reasonable basis for their findings of abuse.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[C]ourts must be especially sensitive to the pressurized circumstances routinely confronting case workers, circumstances in which decisions between difficult alternatives often need to be made on the basis of limited or conflicting information.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.