In Re Robert S.’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably In re A.M. (2012), In re Child of James R. (2018)
38 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Santosky v. Kramer · In Re Randy Scott B. · In Re Alexander D. · In Re Kristy Y.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“due process requires: notice of the issues, an opportunity to be heard, the right to introduce evidence and present witnesses, the right to respond to claims and evidence, and an impartial fact-finder.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“as long as notice of the hearing was given in a manner calculated to give actual notice and the parent had an opportunity to be heard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Tanya C.“We review questions of law, including alleged constitutional violations and statutory interpretation, de novo.”
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.