State v. Anonymous’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
224 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 224 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably In re Juvenile Appeal (83-CD) (1983), Lozada v. Warden, State Prison (1992)
224 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Goldberg v. Kelly · Stanley v. Illinois · McMann v. Richardson · Roth v. United States · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 224 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"it is true that these somewhat general phrases encompass a wide variety of conduct, but the process of parenting itself is multifaceted and encompasses all of life's activities. In view of the diversity of human nature, backgrounds and capabilities, and the differing aspirations of families in our society, it would be impossible to delineate specific conduct as acceptable or unacceptable. What might be totally unacceptable parental behavior in one situation (the deprivation of certain material goods) might be an unfortunate but unavoidable fact of life in a different family situation."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]tandards of mathematical precision are neither possible nor desirable in this field; much must be left to the trial judge's experience and judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here ... as here, a statute ... or practice book rule ... mandates the assistance of counsel, it is implicit that this means competent counsel”
2 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.