Franks v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
717 F.2d 183 · 1983
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Roe v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services (2002), United States v. Setser (2009)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle · Marshall v. Barlow's, Inc. · Burrus
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the question of the custody of the child [because] domestic relations are the province of state courts, going back to Ex parte Burrus , 136 U.S. 586 , 593-94, 10 S.Ct. 850 , 853, 34 L.Ed. 500 (1890).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Loeb v. Vergara“A section 1983 action can also lie against others, such as social workers, where actions by them were taken in their official capacity as state employees.”
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.