Castagno v. Wholean’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
175 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Elliott v. City of Waterbury (1998), Roth v. Weston (2002)
175 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 Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Moore v. City of East Cleveland · Gurliacci v. Mayer
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Although the death of a parent or the de facto separation of the parents may allow an action, there may be other times when an action is also warranted . . .".”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"All families may have, at one time or another, unhappy conflicts and disputes among adult relatives that might result in an absence of contact between those adults and their minor relatives . . .".”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“". . . shall be guided by the best interest of the child, giving consideration to the wishes of such child if he is of sufficient age and capable of forming an intelligent opinion."”
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.