Peterson v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 465 · 1983
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably McIntyre v. McIntyre (1985), Ingram v. Hayes (1988)
17 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Moore v. Sims · Burrus · Lehman Ex Rel. Lehman v. Lycoming County Children's Services Agency · State of Ohio Popovici v. Agler · William H. Hernstadt v. Sharon S. Hernstadt
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The strong state interest in domestic relations matters, [and] the superior competence of state courts in settling family disputes because regulation and supervision of domestic relations within their borders is entrusted to the states ... makes federal abstention in these cases appropriate.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coats v. Woods · Smith v. Johnson“It follows that the exception to jurisdiction arises in those cases where a federal court is asked to grant a decree of divorce or annulment, or to grant custody or fix payments for support, the rationale being that those actions are close to the historical concept of an ecclesiastical action and peculiarly within the province of the state courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must decline jurisdiction of cases concerning domestic relations when the primary issue concerns the status of parent and child or husband and wife.”
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.