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In Re Declaring Fish’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
3
states following
June 1994
most recently cited

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

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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. “"(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 majority
  2. “(b) Transfer legal custody to any of the following:”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.