Fields v. Palmdale School District’s Empirical Analysis
427 F.3d 1197 · 2005
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Parker v. Hurley (2008), Cn Jn Lm Vm Me Je v. Ridgewood Board of Education (2005)
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Stanley v. Illinois · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Troxel v. Granville · Goss v. Lopez
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[O]nce parents make the choice as to which school their children will attend, their fundamental right to control the education of their children is, at the least, substantially diminished.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“to make decisions concerning the care, custody and control of their children”
3 later decisions 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.