Russ v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions

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

1. “(allthough it is well established that parents have a fundamental constitutional liberty interest in the 'care, custody, and control of their children,' the appropriate framework for analyzing claims alleging a violation of this interest is less than clear.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Dis · Sidman v. Sidman

2. “Several of our sister circuits have considered whether the Constitution protects a parent’s relationship with his adult children in the context of state action which has the incidental effect of severing that relationship. No other court of which we are aware has allowed aPparent to recover for the loss of his relationship with his child in these circumstances. Most courts that have considered the issue have expressly declined to find a violation of the familial liberty interest where the state action at issue was not aimed at specifically interfering with the relationship.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 438 F. Supp. 2d 1252 - Rentz Ex Rel. Estate of Rentz v. Spokane County

3. “Under any standard, finding a constitutional violation based on official actions that were not directed at the parent-child relationship would stretch the concept of due process far beyond the guiding principles set forth by the Supreme Court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Partridge v. City of Benton