Sissy Littlefield’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 2006 WI App 142 - Larson v. Burmaster (2006), Neustadter v. Holy Cross Hospital of Silver Spring, Inc. (2011)
7 district · 6 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · United States v. O'Brien · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The dispositive question at issue is whether the sweeping statements of Troxel regarding the “fundamental” “interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children,” mandate a strict standard of scrutiny for the Parents’ Fourteenth Amendment challenge to the Uniform Policy. We do not read Troxel to create a fundamental right for parents to control the clothing their children wear to public schools and, thus, instead follow almost eighty years of precedent analyzing parental rights in the context of public education under a rational-basis standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“While Parents may have a fundamental right in the upbringing and education of their children, this right does not cover the Parents' objection to a public school Uniform Policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[P]arents simply do not have a constitutional right to control each and every aspect of their children's education and oust the state's authority over that subject.”
1 later decision 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.