Roe v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services’s Empirical Analysis
299 F.3d 395 · 2002
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably McClendon v. City of Columbia (2002), Morgan v. Swanson (2011)
32 federal appellate · 3 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have held that the Fourth Amendment regulates social workers' civil investigations, but we have not fleshed out the relevant Fourth Amendment standards.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blake v. Lambert · Marks v. Hudson“clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Strip searches implicate fundamental Fourth Amendment rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.