In Re Suggs’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Brooks v. Parkerson (1995), Clark v. Wade (2001)
3 federal appellate · 67 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Rose v. Locke · In the Interest of J. C.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to the custody and control of one's child is a fiercely guarded right in our society and in our law. It is a right that should be infringed upon only under the most compelling circumstances.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]s without proper parental care or control, subsistence, education as required by law, or other care or control necessary for his physical, mental, or emotional health or morals.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application.' [Cits.] Furthermore, `[a]ll the Due Process Clause requires is that the law give sufficient warning that men may conduct themselves so as to avoid that which is forbidden.' [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sliney v. State
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.