McCurdy v. Dodd’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.3d 820 · 2003
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Chambers v. School District of Philadelphia Board of Education (2009), Russ v. Watts (2005)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Daniels v. Williams · Stanley v. Illinois · Troxel v. Granville · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t cannot now be doubted that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. C.N., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of J.N., a Minor L.M., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of V.M., a Minor M.E., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of J.E., a Minor v. Ridgewood Board of Education Frederick J. Stokley Joyce Snider Ronald Verdicchio Robert Weakley John Mucciolo Anthony Bencivenga Sheila Brogan · Cn Jn Lm Vm Me Je v. Ridgewood Board of Education“the due process right of parents to make critical decisions about the upbringing of their children,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re Dis · Sidman v. Sidman“sharply different constitutional treatment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.