Dahn v. Amedei’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.3d 1178 · 2017
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2020
6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 46 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Brosseau v. Haugen · Ashcroft v. al-Kidd
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“special relationship exists between the State and foster child, which triggers an accompanying, continuing duty imposed on state custodial officials thereafter - not a duty limited to only the specific officials who executed the placement of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The existence of the special relationship is the pivotal issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matthews v. Bergdorf
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.