B.V. v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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.

1. ““Applying current Alabama law and the Alabama [Department of Human Resources’] regulations to the facts of the case, when viewed in a light most favorable to the foster parents, it appears that violations of both the Foster Parents’ Bill of Rights and the Alabama [Department of Human Resources’] regulations attended the removal of J.C. from the home of the foster parents.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. J.C. ex rel. D.V. v. Davidson

2. ““It should have been obvious to any person concerned that the summary removal of J.C. from the foster parents’ home would be felt by the foster parents as strongly as would the summary removal of their own natural children, which Brannon,[ 3 ] Marks, and Davidson all at least implicitly acknowledged would cause any rational person extreme emotional distress.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. J.C. ex rel. D.V. v. Davidson

3. ““For a state agency whose main function involves supervising and coordinating intimate human relations, the decision to rip from the foster parents a child to whom they had undoubtedly devoted their love and attention for many years, without even allowing for a proper goodbye, appears especially and unnecessarily callous.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. J.C. ex rel. D.V. v. Davidson