JD v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2023
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 Matter of Adoption of JLP · SED v. Carbon County Department of Family Services · Matter of SYM · In the Interest of Sjj · Rickert v. State, Public Disclosure Com'n
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.
“plainly relevant in determining current parental fitness.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. HJO v. State · DMM v. State“Proof of any one of those [bases] by clear and convincing evidence supports the termination of parental rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) The parent-child legal relationship may be terminated if any one (1) or more of the following facts is established by clear and convincing evidence: ... (iii) The child has been abused or neglected by the parent and reasonable efforts by an authorized agency or mental health professional have been unsuccessful in rehabilitating the family or the family has refused rehabilitative treatment, and it is shown that the child's health and safety would be seriously jeopardized by remaining with or returning to the parent[.]”
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.