Searle v. Searle’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2025
6 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. § 1903 (§ 4 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978) · 25 U.S.C. § 1911 (§ 101 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978)
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Moore v. Sims · Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield · Peralta v. Heights Medical Center, Inc. · Pope v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o preserve an issue for appellate review, a party must first raise the issue in the trial court, giving that court an opportunity to rule on the issue.”
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.