Davis v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.2d 599 · 1981
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2008 · most notably Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina (1981), Lehman Ex Rel. Lehman v. Lycoming County Children's Services Agency (1982)
12 federal appellate · 7 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Gideon v. Wainwright · Younger v. Harris · Wolff v. McDonnell
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sat silently through most of the hearing . . . fearful of antagonizing the social workers”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was little more than a spectator in the adjudicatory [dependency] proceeding,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)f habeas jurisdiction exists at the outset of a case, it is not defeated by the applicant's subsequent release from custody”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Escobedo v. Estelle
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.