In re S.B.L.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
49
cited by 49 later decisions
3
states following
June 2025
most recently cited
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Watkins v. Nelson (2000), McDermott v. Dougherty (2005)
49 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 · Lehr v. Robertson · Smith v. Organization of Foster Families for Equality & Reform · Quilloin v. Walcott · Caban v. Mohammed
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.