Stem v. Ahearn’s Empirical Analysis
908 F.2d 1 · 1990
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Doe v. Taylor Independent School District (1994), Schultea v. Wood (1995)
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 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 · Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Further, the applicable law that binds the conduct of officeholders must be clearly established at the very moment that the allegedly actionable conduct was taken.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Plaintiff] ignores the fact that his parental rights were impinged only after a judicial hearing at which he was fully heard. [Defendants] never physically removed [the] child from him or otherwise altered his parental rights under the law, although [a defendant] did testify in court concerning his investigatory conclusions and did advise the mother to keep the daughter away from the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“despite medical evidence to the contrary,”
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.