White v. Rochford

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the complaint alleged a violation where police “left helpless minor children subject to inclement weather and great physical danger without any appar- ent justification”
• reversing dismissal of state-created danger claim where police left children on side of freeway in cold weather, resulting in mental anguish and hospitalization
• finding a State-created danger where the police arrested a driver for drag racing and left the children passengers stranded in the car on a busy highway on a cold night
• reversing summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds where an officer arrested a driver and left the driver’s three minor children in the driver’s abandoned car on the side of the road and exposed to the cold
• finding Due Process Clause violation where \unjustified and arbitrary refusal of police officers to lend aid to children endangered by the performance of official duty . . . ultimately result[ed] in physical and emotional injury to the children\
• police officers violated due process when, after arresting the guardian of three young children, they abandoned the children on a busy stretch of highway at night

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services
  Supreme Court· 1989-02-22· cited 4,564×
• Morse v. Lower Merion School District
  Third Circuit· 1997-12-23· cited 1,920×
• Davidson v. Cannon
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-21· cited 1,806×
• Kneipp v. Tedder
  Third Circuit· 1996-09-18· cited 1,227×
• Gibson v. City of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-08-23· cited 1,128×
• Donald L. Hays, Jr., and Michael C. Potter, Cross-Appellants v. Jefferson County, Kentucky, Wilbur Bilyeu and Russell McDaniel Cross-Appellees
  Sixth Circuit· 1982-01-04· cited 623×
• Peter Clayton McClendon v. City of Columbia, City of Columbia James R. Carney
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-09-05· cited 569×
• Linda K. Wood v. Steven C. Ostrander Neil Maloney
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-06-27· cited 500×
• Betty J. Archie v. City of Racine, Ronald W. Chiapete, and George W. Giese
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-05-23· cited 482×
• Mike Yang v. Paul Hardin
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-09-28· cited 481×
• Medina v. City & County Denver
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-03-31· cited 481×
• Chauncey L. Moore, Jr. v. The Marketplace Restaurant, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-02-11· cited 313×
• Marie Ellsworth & Paul Ellsworth v. City of Racine, a Municipal Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-09-23· cited 298×
• Kennedy v. City of Ridgefield
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-03-07· cited 280×
• Danielle J. Pittsley v. Sergeant Philip Warish
  First Circuit· 1991-04-17· cited 251×
• Soto v. Carrasquillo
  First Circuit· 1997-01-13· cited 244×
• Reed v. Gardner
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-02-23· cited 244×
• Rivas v. City of Passaic
  Third Circuit· 2004-04-26· cited 226×
• Kaisner v. Kolb
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-03-30· cited 199×
• Fagan v. City of Vineland
  Third Circuit· 1994-04-29· cited 169×

Cites

46 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Paul v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1976-05-19· cited 4,836×
• Monroe v. Pape
  Supreme Court· 1961-02-20· cited 4,784×
• Carey v. Piphus
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-21· cited 3,438×
• Meyer v. Nebraska
  Supreme Court· 1923-06-04· cited 3,363×
• Rochin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-02· cited 3,286×
• Griffin v. Breckenridge
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-07· cited 3,211×
• Ingraham v. Wright
  Supreme Court· 1977-04-19· cited 2,975×
• Bolling v. Sharpe
  Supreme Court· 1954-05-17· cited 2,385×
• Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 2,289×
• Wood v. Strickland
  Supreme Court· 1975-04-14· cited 2,195×
• Screws v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1945-05-07· cited 2,023×
• Skinner v. Oklahoma Ex Rel. Williamson
  Supreme Court· 1942-06-01· cited 1,929×
• Johnson v. Glick
  Second Circuit· 1973-06-29· cited 1,567×
• Malinski v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1945-03-26· cited 711×
• Thomas Byrd v. William P. Brishke
  Seventh Circuit· 1972-07-18· cited 227×
• Williams v. Fears
  Supreme Court· 1900-12-10· cited 224×
• Schuster v. City of New York
  New York Court of Appeals· 1958-11-11· cited 218×
• Robert Leon Jenkins, a Minor, by His Mother and Next Friend, Roberta B. Jenkins v. F. W. Averett
  Fourth Circuit· 1970-04-20· cited 191×
• Henry Howell v. Cataldi
  Third Circuit· 1972-06-26· cited 179×

Other cases named White v. Rochford

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• White v. Rochford
  Seventh Circuit· 1979-02-13