Armstrong v. Manzo’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
1,047 federal appellate · 487 district · 2,091 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,213 later decisions (113 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Mathews v. Eldridge (1976), Morrissey v. Brewer (1972)
1,047 federal appellate · 487 district · 2,091 state decisions — followed in 50 states
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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Milliken v. Meyer · Speiser v. Randall · Douglas v. Alabama
Cited together with Mathews v. Eldridge · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Goldberg v. Kelly · Morrissey v. Brewer · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth
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 5,213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner.”
266 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not have the slightest inkling of the pendency of Ethel adoption proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“of his child without due process of law.”
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.