In re N. H.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably In Re RL (1987), Wilkinson v. Russell (1999)
55 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 · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · 11 Cal. 3d 679 - In Re BG · In Re J. & J. W.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is an accepted rule of statutory construction that words used in the singular may be read as to include the plural, and the plural the singular, except where a contrary intention plainly appears.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilkinson v. Russell“[T]he freedom of children and parents to relate to one another in the context of the family, free of governmental interference, is a basic liberty long established in our constitutional law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilkinson v. Russell“abandoned or abused by his parents, guardian or other custodian.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilkinson v. Russell
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.