Nicholson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2261 (§ 40221 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 5101 (Abandoned Infants Assistance Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 675 (§ 475 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Robidoux v. Celani · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Drexel Burnham Lambert Group, Inc. · Tenenbaum v. Williams
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the children themselves have not been physically harmed by the non-battering custodian or threatened with harm by the non-battering custodian, or neglected by the non-battering custodian, and where protection of the children and their best interests can be accomplished by separation of the alleged batterer from the custodian and children or by other appropriate measures without removal of the children from the non-battering custodian.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“wholly or in part because the children reside in a home where battering of the custodian was said to have occurred.”
1 later decision 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.