Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably A.D.T. v. State (2008), People Ex Rel. P.S.E. (2012)
33 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 25 U.S.C. § 1901 (§ 2 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978) · 25 U.S.C. § 1912 (§ 102 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978)
Relies on Richards v. United States · Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield · A.A. v. State, Department of Family & Youth Services · State v. Walker · Matter of Adoption of Baby Boy D
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the continued custody of the child by the parent or Indian custodian is likely to result in serious emotional or physical damage to the child,”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“a predicate finding of the trial court made before a termination case may proceed.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Webster Third New International Dictionary 22 (1986), and”
4 later decisions 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.