In Re Marcus S.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2020
22 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 In re Thomas H. · In Re Michaela C. · In Re Elijah R. · In Re Thomas B. · In Re Kaleb C.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Permanency is a dynamic concept that must be fashioned from the actual circumstances and needs of the child or children before the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Kelcie L. · In re Amber L.“In such circumstances, where the only real hope for children is to be placed in a healthy, supportive, and permanent adoptive home, the court does not err or abuse its discretion in finding termination to be in the best interests of the children, even if the possibility of adoption is less than certain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]nstability is antithetical to permanence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Amber L.
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.