Wildauer v. Frederick County’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 369 · 1993
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Gates v. Texas Deparment of Protective & Regulatory Services (2008), Hodge ex rel. Hodge v. Jones (1994)
17 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 620 (§ 420 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 672 (§ 472 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Foman v. Davis · Paul v. Davis · Florida v. Bostick · United States v. Place
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The publication of information regarding child abuse or neglect to entities authorized by law to receive such reports does not state a claim under § 1983. See Whelehan v. County of Monroe, 558 F.Supp. 1093, 1109 (W.D.N.Y.1983.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]everal courts have explicitly held that foster parents do not have a constitutionally protected liberty interest in a continued relationship with their foster child”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Individuals who investigate child abuse or neglect enjoy at least qualified immunity;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lopkoff v. Slater
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.