In re R.B.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably In Re MCP (1989), In re M.C.P. (1989)
60 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 Santosky v. Kramer · In Re William L. · In Re RL · In Re CW · In Re Proceedings Concerning a Neglected Child
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that there is no reasonable possibility that the causes and conditions which led to the filing of the petition can be remedied and the family restored within a reasonable time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“all the parties involved are to be accorded a fair hearing, and their constitutional and other legal rights recognized and enforced.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in a state of continuing limbo rather than creating a stable living arrangement, as the law requires.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re JT · In re B.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.