Dietz v. Damas’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 671 (§ 471 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mathews v. Eldridge
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]mergency circumstances mean circumstances in which the child is immediately threatened with harm, ..., for example, where there exists an `immediate threat to the safety of the child,' ... or where the child is left bereft of care and supervision, ... or where there is evidence of serious ongoing abuse and the officials have reason to fear imminent recurrence....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If they err in interrupting parental custody, they may be accused of infringing the parents’ constitutional rights. If they err in not removing the child, they risk injury to the child and may be accused of infringing the child’s rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sundbye v. Ogunleye“[t]he establishment of a liberty interest on the basis of state law, even when the doctrine was most in favor, was largely limited to state law regarding the conditions of confinement in prisons and other institutions.”
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.