Schall v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
327 federal appellate · 89 district · 567 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,315 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Salerno (1987), Reno v. Flores (1993)
327 federal appellate · 89 district · 567 state decisions — followed in 37 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
reviewedMartin v. Strasburg (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Barker v. Wingo
Cited together with United States v. Salerno · Gault · Bell v. Wolfish · Gerstein v. Pugh · Santosky v. Kramer
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 1,315 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be qualified by the recognition that juveniles, unlike adults, are always in some form of custody.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“parens patriae interest in preserving and promoting the welfare of the child.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'whether an alternative purpose to which [the detention] may rationally be connected is assignable for it, and whether it appears excessive in relation to the alternative purpose assigned [to it].'”
12 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.