Allen v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
48 F.3d 259 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2023
8 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Younger v. Harris · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Quilloin v. Walcott · Ankenbrandt Lr Sr v. A Richards
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Allen cites no constitutional infirmity in his exclusion from the underlying state proceedings or in the proceedings themselves, and we discern none. The substantive due process rights Allen, an unwed father, possesses can constitutionally be curtailed by his failure to take affirmative steps to secure them. Allen suffered no deprivation of any kind until he failed to establish his parentage according to Illinois state law procedures. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pena v. Mattox
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.