State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Christian v. Gray (2003), In the Matter of Pamela AG (2006)
78 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Santosky v. Kramer · Daniels v. Williams · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina · Maryland v. Craig
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“meaningful and fair opportunity to defend.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“In passing upon a claim that the procedure used in a proceeding to terminate parental rights resulted in a denial of procedural due process, we review the issue de novo.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“De novo review requires an independent, non-deferential re-examination of another tribunal's legal rulings.”
12 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.