Robert Dean Mattis, M.D. v. Patrolman Richard R. Schnarr’s Empirical Analysis
502 F.2d 588 · 1974
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Bell v. City of Milwaukee (1984), Ashcroft v. Mattis (1977)
32 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 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 · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Monroe v. Pape · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Pierson v. Ray
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The familial relationship between parent and child is fundamental to our civilization. The family is the foundation of society and hence the state. The traditions and common heritage of our people have always stressed the importance of the family bonds. We believe that ‘parenthood is a substantial interest of surpassing value and protected from deprivation without due process of law’ — a fundamental legal right. The plaintiff alleges that this fundamental right has been invaded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“that their use of their guns in the manner described was reasonably necessary under the circumstances and was authorized by the statutes of the State of Missouri and that such statutes were valid and lawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the force and effect of a final judgment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peterson v. Lindner
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.