Drollinger v. Milligan’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.2d 1220 · 1977
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Bell v. City of Milwaukee (1984), Trujillo v. Board of County Commissioners (1985)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Warth v. Seldin · Morrissey v. Brewer · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Younger v. Harris · Baker v. Carr
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our analysis of the Indiana statutes authorizing the granting of probation demonstrates [that] ... [i]n placing a defendant on probation the trial court is required to impose conditions concerning the manner in which the defendant must conduct himself.... [The plaintiffs] challenge to the conditions of her probation is, therefore, an attack on the sentence of the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The nuclear family has traditionally constituted the unit afforded the protection of due process. We see no reason, however, not to extend this guaranty to the grandfather-grandchild relationship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because probation is by its nature less confining than incarceration, the distinction between the fact of confinement and the conditions thereof is necessarily blurred. The elimination or substitution, for example, of one of the conditions of Rosanna’s probation would free her substantially from her confinement; figuratively speaking, one of the “bars” would be removed from her cell.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.