Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2014
1 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Estelle v. Gamble · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meachum v. Fano
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As it turned out, the Department’s decision to remove [the child] from the ... home was infelicitous. However, hindsight alone is not enough to establish a constitutional violation. We must examine the officials’ actions in the context in which they occurred____ In this case, the steps taken by the Department were entirely reasonable in light of the circumstances ____”
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.