McDougald v. Jenson’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 1465 · 1986
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably Thompson v. Thompson (1988), LaChance v. Duffy's Draft House, Inc. (1998)
46 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738A · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child because he has been subjected to or threatened with mistreatment or abuse.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Thompson v. Thompson · Ex Parte JRW“'[I]f the federal issue [presented in a declaratory judgment action] would inhere in the claim on the face of the complaint that would have been presented in a traditional damage or coercive action, then federal jurisdiction exists over the declaratory judgment action.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an action seeking an authoritative federal construction of section 1738A to resolve a conflict concerning the validity of state court custody orders may be maintained in federal district court”
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.