York v. Halley’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2010
20 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Stanley v. Illinois · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Armstrong v. Manzo
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"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 passagee.g. A.E. v. State · AE v. State
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.