In Re Wright’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The Court has frequently emphasized the importance of the family. The rights to conceive and to raise one’s children have been deemed ‘essential,’ Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390, 399 , 43 S.Ct. 625, 626 , 67 L.Ed. 1042 , [1045, 29 A.L.R. 1446 ] (1923), civil rights of man’; Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 U.S. 535, 541 , 62 S.Ct. 1110, 1113 , 86 L.Ed. 1655 [1660] (1942), and ‘(r)ights far more precious ... than property rights,’ May v. Anderson, 345 U.S. 528, 533 , 73 S.Ct. 840, 843 , 97 L.Ed. 1221 , [1226] (1953). *It is cardinal with us that the custody, care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder.’ Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158, 166 , 64 S.Ct. 438, 442 , 88 L.Ed. 645, 652 , (1944). The integrity of the family unit has found protection in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Meyer v. Nebraska, supra, 262 U.S. at 399 , 435 S.Ct. [625] at 626, [ 67 L.Ed. at 1045 ], the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Skinner v. Oklahoma, supra, at 316 U.S. 541 , 62 S.Ct. [1110] at 1113, [ 86 L.Ed. at 1660 ] and the Ninth Amendment, Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 496 , 85 S.Ct. 1678 [1688], 14 L.Ed.2d 510, 522 (1965) (Goldberg, J., concurring.)"”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. A.E. v. State · AE v. State

2. ““Procedure by presumption is always cheaper and easier than individualized determination. But when, as here, the procedure forecloses the determinative issues of competence and care, when it explicitly disdains present realities in deference to past formalities, it needlessly risks running roughshod over the important interests of both parent and child. It therefore cannot stand.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. York v. Halley

3. ““The fundamental requisite of due process is the opportunity to be heard. Grannis v. Ordean, 234 U.S. 385, 394 , 34 S.Ct. 779, 783 , 58 L.Ed. 1363 (1914). This requirement is all the more important when the judicial procedure concerns the continuance to the parent-child relationship.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Matter of Schatz