In re Alexander V.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 district · 163 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably In re Alexander V. (1992), In re Shaquanna M. (2001)
2 district · 163 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Stanley v. Illinois · State v. Golding · State v. Anonymous · In Re Juvenile Appeal
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause of the psychological effects of prolonged termination proceedings on young children, time is of the essence . . .”
110 later decisions quote this exact passage“When, with respect to any petition filed under section 17a-112 , section 45a-715 or section 45a-716 , it appears that either parent of the child is a minor or incompetent, the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem for such parent. The guardian ad litem shall be an attorney-at-law authorized to practice law in Connecticut or any duly authorized officer of a child-placing agency if the agency is not the petitioner.”
1 later decision 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.