Kiser v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
67 F.3d 1166 · 1995
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Brokaw v. Mercer County (2000), Exxon Corporation v. Oxxford Clothes Inc Xx (1997)
11 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Santosky v. Kramer · Stanley v. Illinois · Siegert v. Gilley · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina
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.
“[A]lthough a substantive due process right to family integrity has been recognized, the contours of that right are not well-defined, and continue to be nebulous, especially in the context of the state's taking temporary custody of a child during an investigation of possible parental abuse.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It would be anomalous to conclude that a defendant waives a qualified immunity defense by dismissing as moot an interlocutory appeal that the defendant was not required to take in the first place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Armstrong v. Ashley“[W]e do not think that appellants in this case should have known that their conduct in removing the Hodrowski children from the home violated the nebulous right of family integrity.”
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.