Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1,216 federal appellate · 482 district · 687 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,261 later decisions (63 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984), Daniels v. Williams (1986)
1,216 federal appellate · 482 district · 687 state decisions — followed in 43 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRomeo v. Youngberg (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Estelle v. Gamble · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Dandridge v. Williams
Cited together with Estelle v. Gamble · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Bell v. Wolfish
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 4,261 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]ersons who have been involuntarily committed are entitled to more considerate treatment and conditions of confinement than criminals whose conditions of confinement are designed to punish.”
244 later decisions quote this exact passage“enjoy[ed] constitutionally protected interests in conditions of reasonable care and safety, reasonably nonrestrictive confinement conditions, and such training as may be required by these interests.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“professional judgment in fact was exercised”
20 later decisions 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.