M.B. & K.B. v. C.E.H.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Armendariz (2007), Budget Rent a Car Corp. v. STATE, DOL (2001)
6 federal appellate · 74 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on In re Adoption of Asente · 193 Cal. App. 3d 1304 - Souza v. Superior Court · State Ex Rel. D.S.K. v. Kasper · T.B. v. M.M.J. · State in Interest of Hj
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus by definition, a termination of parental rights works the ultimate custody and visitation determination as to the party whose rights'are terminated. See Souza v. Superior Court, 193 Cal.App.3d 1304 , 238 Cal.Rptr. 892, 895 (1987) (“Patently, a stepparent adoption, with its potential for completely terminating the natural father’s custodial rights, is a custody-determining custody procedure ... ”); In re Adoption of Asente, [ 90 Ohio St.3d 91 ] 734 N.E.2d [1224,] 1232 [ (2000]) (“We fail to see how a termination of appellants’ parental rights ... did not, for all purposes, determine custody of [the child].”); In re Adoption of N.M.B., [ 564 Pa. 117 ] 764 A.2d 1042 ( []2000) (“[I]t is hard to imagine any more of a modification to a custody and visitation determination than to terminate these rights altogether.”).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“promote cooperation between State courts to the end that a determination of custody and visitation is rendered in the State which can best decide the case in the interest of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a custody or visitation determination which modifies, replaces, supersedes, or otherwise is made subsequent to, a prior custody or visitation determination concerning the same child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.