In re D.A.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
167 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably In re K.H. (2008), In Re B.C. (2014)
167 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Troxel v. Granville · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be an alternative of 'last resort.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(3) The custodial history of the child, including whether the child has been in the temporary custody of one or more public children services agencies or private child placing agencies for twelve or more months of a consecutive twenty-two month period ending on or after March 18, 1999;”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“When determining the best interest of a child under R.C. 2151.414 (D) at a permanent-custody hearing, a trial court may not base its decision solely on the limited cognitive abilities of the parents.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.