Youmans v. Ramos’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Roth v. Weston (2002), Blixt v. Blixt (2002)
39 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
Relies on Stanley v. Illinois · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina · Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether such contact in any given case is wise is a matter that should be left to the discretion of the judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.