In Re Declaring Fish’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably Matter of Guardianship of Doney (1977), In Re Gore (1977)
31 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 Henderson v. Henderson · In Re the Adoption of Biery · Matter of Guardianship of Gullette
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) If a youth is found to be abused, neglected, or dependent, the court may enter its judgment making any of the following dispositions to protect the welfare of the youth: "... "(b) Transfer legal custody to any of the following: "(i) department of social and rehabilitation services."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of LFG · In re L. F. G.“(b) Transfer legal custody to any of the following:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of LFG
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.