State v. ADAM M.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Frederic v. Alex Valdez, J.B. ex rel. Hart v. Valdez (1999)
3 federal appellate · 40 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Weaver v. Graham · Breed v. Jones · Lindsey v. State of Washington
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prior to the expiration of a long-term commitment, as provided for in Section 32A-2-19 ..., the court may extend the judgment for additional periods of one year until the child reaches the age of twenty-one if the court finds that the extension is necessary to safeguard the welfare of the child or the public safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Indie C.“[w]hen the [L]egislature enacts a new law or amends an existing one, it does so for the express purpose of changing the law as it previously existed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“New Mexico Children's Court is a court of limited jurisdiction which can hear only matters arising under the Children's Code.”
1 later decision 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.