Robison v. Via’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs · Stanley v. Illinois · Imbler v. Pachtman
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Via] and Harrison were pushing and pulling, trying to separate Julia from me, prying at your [sic ] fingers or that kind of thing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall immediately and without first taking the child elsewhere ... [d]eliver the child to the juvenile court....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.