Robert W. Phillips v. James Thompson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• no denial of liberty of movement to deny community placement to several hundred higher functioning mentally retarded adults and to place those individuals in institutions; post-Youngberg decision
• no denial of liberty of movement to deny community placement to several hundred higher functioning mentally retarded adults and to place those individuals in institutions; post-Youngberg decision
• patients voluntarily admitted to state facility possessed no substantive due process right under the fourteenth amendment to care in a community residential setting

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

31 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lelsz v. Kavanagh
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-01-21· cited 63×
• Clark v. Cohen
  Third Circuit· 1986-06-26· cited 48×
• Thomas S. v. Morrow
  Fourth Circuit· 1986-01-09· cited 38×
• Society for Good Will to Retarded Children, Inc. v. Cuomo
  Second Circuit· 1984-06-13· cited 35×
• L.C. Ex Rel. Zimring v. Olmstead
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-04-08· cited 22×
• Jackson Ex Rel. Jackson v. Fort Stanton Hospital & Training School
  D. New Mexico· 1990-12-28· cited 21×
• Gieseking v. Schafer
  W.D. Missouri· 1987-08-13· cited 15×
• Sabo v. O'BANNON
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1984-03-29· cited 14×
• Croft v. Harder
  D. Kansas· 1989-11-09· cited 13×
• Evans v. Fenty
  District of Columbia· 2010-04-07· cited 13×
• Conner v. Branstad
  S.D. Iowa· 1993-12-09· cited 12×
• Thompson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-04-10· cited 12×
• Williams v. SECR. OF EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HUMAN SERV.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-03-11· cited 12×
• Williams v. Wasserman
  D. Maryland· 1996-07-31· cited 10×
• Williams v. Secretary of Executive Office of Human Services
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-03-11· cited 10×
• S.H. v. Edwards
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-11-28· cited 10×
• Kolpak v. Bell
  N.D. Illinois· 1985-08-14· cited 9×
• In re T.W.
  Montana Supreme Court· 2005-12-28· cited 9×
• Lelsz v. Kavanagh
  N.D. Texas· 1986-03-04· cited 8×
• In Re TW
  Montana Supreme Court· 2005-12-28· cited 7×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-18· cited 2,433×
• Southeastern Community College v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-11· cited 1,381×
• Mayor of Philadelphia v. Educational Equality League
  Supreme Court· 1974-03-25· cited 420×