State v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1990
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 Morrison v. State · Rouse v. Rouse · Harter v. State · Cross v. Yardley · Loeffelholz 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In equity matters, such as this, where our review is de novo it is our responsibility to review the facts as well as the law and adjudicate rights anew on those propositions properly presented, provided issue has been raised and error, if any, preserved in the course of the trial court's proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When relationship changed. The court may upon petition terminate the relationship between parent and child:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“2. If the court finds that one or more of the following conditions exist:”
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.