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← 330 F. Supp. 2d 83 - Ward v. Murphy

330 F. Supp. 2d 83 - Ward v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
February 2014
most recently cited

3 district ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edelman v. Jordan · Malley v. Briggs

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[i]f they err in interrupting parental custody, they may be accused of infringing the parents’ constitutional rights,” but”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “qualified immunity provides 'substantial protection for caseworkers,'”
    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.