In re Romance M.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
186 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 188 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably In re Eden F. (1999), Loisel v. Rowe (1995)
186 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 In re Luis C. · Berry v. Loiseau · In re Valerie D. · In re Baby Girl B. · In re Jessica M.
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 188 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The timeliness, nature and extent of services offered or provided to the parent and the child by an agency to facilitate the reunion of the child with the parent.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“The feelings and emotional ties of the child with respect to his parents, any guardians of his person and any person who has exercised physical care, custody or control of the child for at least one year and with whom the child has developed significant emotional ties.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“At the dispositional hearing, the emphasis appropriately shifts from the conduct of the parent to the best interest of the child.”
4 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.