20 Va. App. 75 - Willis v. Gamez’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2012
13 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 Juvenile Appeal v. Commissioner of Children & Youth Services · State Ex Rel. Juvenile Department v. Geist · Carroll County Department of Social Services v. Edelmann · Malpass v. Morgan · Weaver v. Roanoke Department of Human Resources
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ajlthough concurrent jurisdiction to terminate parental rights might exist in some cases, the record does not establish the circuit court’s jurisdiction in this case. Even if we assume that a termination of residual parental rights involves the “custody, guardianship, visitation or support of children,” the record in this case does not establish that a cause was pending in the circuit court to which the father’s petition would be “incidental” to a determination of that cause [sic].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The statutory scheme for the constitutionally valid termination of residual parental rights in this Commonwealth is primarily embodied in Code § 16.1-283. That scheme pro vides detailed procedures designed to protect the rights of the parents and their child. These procedures must be strictly followed before the courts are permitted to sever the natural and legal bond between parent and child.”
1 later decision 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.