Travis Rippy, by Next Friend, Aaron and Janet Rippy’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 2 state decisions

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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.

1. “Tennessee law entrusts the decision whether to return a neglected child to the home from which he was removed to the Juvenile Court. The Department [of Children’s Services] acts in an advisory role to the Juvenile Court in recommending that the child is ready to return home. In performing that role, social workers in the Department act in much the same fashion as probation officers who make sentencing recommendations to criminal courts for which they are entitled to absolute immunity.... Social workers involved in the investigation or recommendation are, therefore, entitled to absolute immunity with respect to claims arising from such recommendations and investigations.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nathaniel Brent v. Wayne Cnty. Dep't of Human Servs.

2. “the right the official is alleged to have violated must have been 'clearly established1 in a more particularized, and hence more relevant, sense: The contours of the right must have been sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates the right. This is not to say that an official action is protected by qualified immunity unless the very action in question has previously been held unlawful; but it is to say that in the light of preexisting law the unlawfulness must be apparent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 307 F. Supp. 2d 860 - Doe Ex Rel. Doe v. Warren Consolidated Schools