Dakuras v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
312 F.3d 256 · 2002
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
December 2014
most recently cited
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1359
Relies on Janzen v. Goos · Bontkowski v. Smith · Foster v. Carlin · Ziady v. Curley · Juvelis ex rel. Juvelis v. Snider
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The responsibility for making the essential life choices of children and wards is vested not in them but in their parents or guardians, and we cannot see why the choice of domicile should not be treated as one of those life choices.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“leave the incompetent in a never-ending limbo where the presumption against changing domicile becomes more important than the interests of the person the presumption was designed to protect.”
1 later decision 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.