M.E. v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2023
15 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 Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Burkett v. Schwendiman · State in Interest of MAV v. Vargas · State ex rel. Summers Children v. Wulffenstein
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The parents, guardian, custodian, and the minor, if competent, shall be informed that they have the right to be represented by counsel at every stage of the proceedings.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“no absolute statutory or constitutional right to attend the trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. J.F. v. State · K.Z. v. State“failed to show they exercised any semblance of due diligence in attempting to be present for the termination trial in Utah or at least to seek a continuance in a timely manner”
3 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.