Thomas v. Chadwick’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Rite Aid Corp. v. Hagley (2003), 17 Cal. App. 4th 246 - James W. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN DIEGO CTY. (1993)
3 federal appellate · 22 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
Applies 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. § 5106A
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Baker v. McCollan · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are obligated to honor the determination of the Legislature that protection of one innocent segment of society warrants occasional injury to another. The mute and powerless victims of child abuse have long suffered at the hands of their tormenters. Society’s protective voice, the Legislature has found, has been silenced by the fear of retaliation. The protection of the young victims, the Legislature has determined, requires that uncompensated injury occasionally result to an adult.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The fundamental goal of statutory interpretation is to ascertain the Legislature's intent to effectuate the purpose of the law, focusing not only on the words used but also the objectives of the statute, the evils to be remedied and the legislative history of the statute. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Congress intended the federal act to facilitate state programs whose objective is to prevent, identify and treat victims of child abuse. [Citation.]”
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.