LaShawn A. ex rel. Moore v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
990 F.2d 1319 · 1993
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Lashawn A. v. Barry (1996), Butera v. District of Columbia (2001)
19 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Younger v. Harris · Dandridge v. Williams · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Juidice v. Vail
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to fashion an equally comprehensive order based entirely on District of Columbia law, if possible.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Instead, every time the question has arisen, we have assumed that the doctrine applies to the District and nonetheless determined, in light of the facts of each particular case, that Younger abstention has not been appropriate.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a private cause of action for children in foster care and for children reported to have been abused or neglected but not yet in the District's custody.”
2 later decisions 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.