Hodorowski v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
844 F.2d 1210 · 1988
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 5 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Watterson v. Page (1993), Brokaw v. Mercer County (2000)
41 federal appellate · 5 district · 18 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Santosky v. Kramer · Malley v. Briggs
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is beyond dispute that many aspects of family integrity possess constitutional stature. But reasonable government officials, knowing only that they must not infringe on family integrity, would not necessarily know just what conduct was prohibited. In particular, in the absence of any more fact-specific authority, we do not think that appellants in this case should have known that their conduct in removing the Hodo-rowski children from the home violated the nebulous right of family integrity.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ample protection to all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“most essential and basic aspect of familial privacy--the right of the family to remain together without the coercive interference of the awesome power of the state.”
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.