Hamit v. Hamit’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Zimmer v. Zimmer (2010), In Re Adoption of Ca (2006)
2 district · 44 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 Santosky v. Kramer · Stanley v. Illinois · United States v. Salerno · Troxel v. Granville · Meyer v. State of Nebraska
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provides heightened protection against government interference with certain fundamental rights and liberty interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“special factors that might justify the State's interference”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re Al
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.