In re Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1,533 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,536 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Zivich v. Mentor Soccer Club, Inc. (1998), In re Hayes (1997)
2 federal appellate · 1,533 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 Santosky v. Kramer · Stanley v. Illinois · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Quilloin v. Walcott
Cited together with Santosky v. Kramer · Stanley v. Illinois · Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · In re Cunningham · Davis v. Flickinger
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 1,536 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he right to raise one's children is an 'essential' and 'basic civil right.'”
64 later decisions quote this exact passage“Parents have a constitutionally-protected fundamental interest in the care, custody, and management of their children.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage“protected by law and, thus, comes within the purview of a `substantial right[.]'”
19 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.