McComb v. Wambaugh’s Empirical Analysis
934 F.2d 474 · 1991
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Bester v. Lake County Office of Family & Children (2005), Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Huff (2002)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Hanson v. Denckla · Santosky v. Kramer · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Moore v. City of East Cleveland
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) No sending agency shall send, bring, or cause to be sent or brought into any other party state any child for placement in foster care or as a preliminary to a possible adoption unless the sending agency shall comply with each and every requirement set forth in this article and with the applicable laws of the receiving state governing the placement of children therein. ❖ * * * (d) The child shall not be sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought into the receiving state until the appropriate public authorities in the receiving state shall notify the sending agency, in writing, to the effect that the proposed placement does not appear to be contrary to the interests of the child.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the arrangement for the care of a child in a family free or boarding home or in a child-caring agency or institution ... and any hospital or other medical facility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n any conflict between a statute and a regulation purporting to implement the statutes provision, the regulation must, of course, give way.”
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.