Bjerke v. D. T.’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Hust v. Hust (1980), Dasovick v. A. B. (1977)
41 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 Blore v. John Z. · Hursh v. Klugman · In Re H. · Kingsley v. W. N. · Ellingson v. M. L.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"5. `Deprived child' means a child who: a. Is without proper parental care or control, subsistence, education as required by law, or other care or control necessary for his physical, mental, or emotional health, or morals, and the deprivation is not due primarily to the lack of financial means of his parents, guardian, or other custodian;" [Emphasis ours.]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““.. . it is not reason enough to deprive parents of custody that their home is not the best or most modern that could be offered to the child, so long as the child does not suffer physical or moral harm, or lack of food or clothing. Poverty, lack of education or of culture alone are never justification enough for severing the ties that bind families together.” 248 N.W.2d at 813 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Buchholz v. Buchholz · Hust v. Hust“We are sensitive to the argument that it is dangerous to allow the judgment of social workers to determine how a family is run.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re DQ
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.