Linda Kay Sparkman and Leo Sparkman v. Ora E. McFarlin’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.2d 172 · 1977
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Stump v. Sparkman (1978), Briley v. California (1977)
10 federal appellate · 11 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Pierson v. Ray · Bradley v. Fisher · Pargoud v. United States · Guardianship of Kemp · Wade v. Bethesda Hospital
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“hereby approve the above Petition by affidavit form on behalf of Ora Spitler McFarlin, to have Tubal Ligation performed upon her minor daughter, Linda Spitler, subject to said Ora Spitler McFarlin covenanting and agreeing to indemnify and keep indemnified Dr. John Hines and the DeKalb Memorial Hospital from any matters or causes of action arising therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stump v. Sparkman“all other causes, matters and proceedings where exclusive jurisdiction thereof is not conferred by law upon some other court, board or officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stump v. Sparkman“an illegitimate exercise of his common law power because of his failure to comply with elementary principles of procedural due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stump v. Sparkman
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.