In re Rayna M.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
262 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 262 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably 29 Conn. App. 112 - In re Michael M. (1992), 33 Conn. App. 12 - In re Kezia M. (1993)
262 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 Pandolphe's Auto Parts, Inc. v. Town of Manchester · Juvenile Appeal v. Commissioner of Children & Youth Services · 6 Conn. App. 194 - In re Migdalia M. · 1 Conn. App. 463 - In Re Juvenile Appeal (84-3) · In re Juvenile Appeal
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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A parent must maintain a reasonable degree of interest in the welfare of his or her child. `Maintain' implies a continuing reasonable degree of concern.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage“not whether the parents have shown some interest in their children”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“to maintain a reasonable degree of interest, concern or responsibility as to the welfare of the child.”
18 later decisions 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.