State Ex Rel. E.R.’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
222 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 250 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State ex rel. K.F. v. State (2009), T.M. v. State (2001)
222 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 Valcarce v. Fitzgerald · State v. Thomas · T.L.W. v. Office of the Guardian Ad Litem · State v. Gibbons · Monson v. Carver
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 250 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[In order to overturn the juvenile court's decision, the result must be against the clear weight of the evidence or leave the appellate court with a firm and definite conviction that a mistake has been made.”
84 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. C.H. v. State · T.C. v. State“review the juvenile court's factual findings based upon the clearly erroneous standard.”
71 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State Ex Rel. J.D. · C.H. v. State“'wide latitude of discretion as to the judgments arrived at' based upon not only the court's opportunity to judge credibility firsthand, but also based on the juvenile court judges' 'special training, experience and interest in this field'”
47 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State Ex Rel. J.D. · J.C. v. State
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.