In Re LEM’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably In Re Petition for Adoption of J. S. R. (1977), Appeal of H.R. (1990)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Randolph v. Randolph · Bell v. Leonard · Pettit v. Engelking · 11 App. D.C. 392 - Wells v. Wells · 3 Ill. App. 2d 190 - Ramelow v. People
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had the duty to view all the evidence with the best interests of the child as its guide”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of ABE · In Re AM“Congress, realizing that the needs and welfare of a child committed under any conditions fluctuate rapidly, intended that the court have continuing jurisdiction in all child commitment cases in which it had original jurisdiction”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of JAG
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.