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603 F.3d 1182 · 2010

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
1
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Anderson v. Creighton · Pearson v. Callahan · Malley v. Briggs · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman

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

  1. “precedent reasonably suggests that the Due Process Clause provides some level of protection for parents' decisions regarding their children's medical care”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[t]he Supreme Court has ... never specifically defined the scope of a parent's right to direct her child's medical care,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “concerning the care, custody, and control of their children.”
    2 later decisions 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.