Lee v. DeShaney’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2013
10 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 Sistare v. Sistare · Matilda Von Ellert Sistare v. Horace Randall Sistare · Barber v. Barber · State v. Rankin · 160 Ind. App. 244 - Podgorny v. Great Central Insurance Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The issue of finality is determined by the law of the state which rendered the order, but, if the law of such state is not brought to the attention of the court[,] the court will not institute inquiries on its own.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“relating to child support or any other monetary obligations of any person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“providing for the custody of a child, including visitation rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Johnson
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.