Chandler v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"In this case the state had intervened in a family to take a child from the custody of its parent. It was placed in the custody of the Welfare Department. The conduct of the case workers who were supervising the child and the relationship of these people to the child and to the parent and stepmother was directly in issue. During the trial, counsel sought to elicit certain information from this file and was unable to satisfactorily obtain it. He then moved to put the entire file in evidence. This was denied. However, the real question presented here is, should counsel have been permitted reasonable access to the file in order to use that part of it that was relevant to the issues being presented to the court? We think the court should have permitted such an examination. * * * "It would be ununthinkable to say that an agency of the state may seize a person's child and then be the sole judge of how much of the evidence in respect to the agency's conduct it will refuse to divulge. * * * "An opportunity to put it in evidence should have been allowed."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sevits v. F— A— P— · In Re S____ M____ W____

2. “[T]he concept and intent of the juvenile code would be violated if [a rule providing that if children are competent to testify, either party can require them to testify] were to be applied to the proceedings contemplated by the code. The compelling intent of the juvenile code proceeding is to protect the child in any situation in which the court thinks the child may require it. Discretion must be vested in the trial court to make the initial determination if it would be proper to question a child [in open court] in any given case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Juvenile Department v. Beasley

3. “"The child was questioned privately by the court in the presence of counsel for the father and for the state. A record of the questions and answers is here." Id.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Juvenile Department v. Beasley