In re Barbara J.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably In re Valerie D. (1992), In re Baby Girl B. (1992)
93 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 Stanley v. Illinois · In re Luis C. · Flick v. United States · Juvenile Appeal v. Commissioner of Children & Youth Services · Neil v. Biggers
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Section 17a-122 (b)(2): The parent of a child who [had] been found by the superior court to have been neglected or uncared for in a prior proceeding [has] failed to achieve such degree of personal rehabilitation as would encourage the belief that within a reasonable time considering the age and needs of the child, [he and/or she] could assume a responsible position in the life of the child.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Statutory Standards for the Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The child has been denied by reason of an act or acts of parental commission or omission, the care, guidance or control necessary for his physical, educational, moral or emotional well being. . .”
3 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.