Deem v. Lobato’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Zimmer v. Zimmer (2010), Hamit v. Hamit (2006)
25 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 Troxel v. Granville · City of Farmington v. Fawcett · Gruschus Ex Rel. Estate of Adams v. Bureau of Revenue · Stueber v. Pickard · State v. Brown
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reviewing court begins its inquiry with a presumption that a statute is valid. A court must uphold a statute unless satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that the legislature exceeded the bounds of the constitution in enacting it. All doubts as to its constitutionality must be resolved in favor of the validity of the law. A party chailenging the constitutionality of a statute has the burden of establishing its invalidity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here is nothing in Troxel or the resulting case law to suggest that the Supreme Court considered the presumption that a fit parent acts in the best interests of his or her child to be other than a rebuttable presumption”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chatterjee v. King“Giving the parent's determination `special weight' is different than insulating the parent's determination from any court intervention whatsoever.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re RA, Jr.
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.