In re Declaring E.W.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably In re E.K. (2001), In re J.N. (1999)
50 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Interstate Production Credit Ass'n v. Desaye · In Re SMQ · In re Declaring D.H. · Matter of RB
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a natural parent's right to care and custody of a child is a fundamental liberty interest, which must be protected by fundamentally fair procedures.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of P.M.B. · In Re EK“must present clear and convincing evidence to the district court that the prerequisite statutory criteria for termination have been met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of P.M.B.“[A] parent must not only comply with the treatment plan, but the treatment plan must also be successful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re BF
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.