Smith v. Williams-Ash’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.3d 596 · 2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2024
2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Scott v. Harris · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Flagg Brothers Inc v. Brooks J Lefkowitz
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“hearings are required for deprivations taken over objection, not for steps authorized by consent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the [parents] remained in the safety plan voluntarily at all times,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schulkers v. Kammer“that they involuntarily consented to enter into the plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schulkers v. Kammer
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.