S.B.D. v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State Ex Rel. B.R. (2007), State Ex Rel. T.M. (2006)
56 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Concrete Pipe & Products of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal. · State v. Walker · Carr v. Allison Gas Turbine Division, General Motors Corp. · State v. Brake
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he result must be against the clear weight of the evidence or leave the appellate court with a firm and definite conviction that a mistake has been made.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. C.C. v. State · D.D.B. v. J.L.C.“appropriate when evaluating whether a result was 'clearly erroneous' for the reviewing court to consider the standard of proof the prevailing party below was required to meet.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State Ex Rel. Zd · A.A. v. State“The doctrine that shapes and guides judicial review is that it is not within the province of an appellate court to substitute its judgment for that of a front line fact-finder except when exceptional cireumstances warrant more rigorous serutiny.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Otteman v. Baldwin · R.B. v. L.B.
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.