In re S.M.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably In re E.K. (2001), In re A.N. (2000)
25 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 In re Declaring E.W. · Matter of RBO · In re R.B.O. · Cenex v. Board of Com'rs for Yellowstone · In re S.C.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is well established that a treatment plan can be unsuccessful even when the tasks were completed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.