Nale v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably In Re Swanson (1999), In Re the Adoption of A.A.T. (2008)
32 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
Relies on Santosky v. Kramer · Stanley v. Illinois · Lehr v. Robertson · Quilloin v. Walcott · Caban v. Mohammed
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a right of individual privacy guaranteed under and protected by the liberty clauses of the Tennessee Declaration of Rights.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Vineyard v. Hood · Bond v. McKenzie“Parents ... have a fundamental liberty interest in the care and custody of their children under both the United States and Tennessee Constitutions. Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645 , 92 S.Ct. 1208 , 31 L.Ed.2d 551 (1972); Hawk v. Hawk, 855 S.W.2d 573 (Tenn.1993). However, this right is not absolute and the State may interfere with parental rights if there is a compelling State interest. Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 , 102 S.Ct. 1388 , 71 L.Ed.2d 599 (1982); Hawk v. Hawk, 855 S.W.2d at 579 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a fundamental liberty interest in the child”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.