In re E.A.T.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2025
2 district · 16 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 Lovell v. State Compensation Mutual Insurance Fund · In re Declaring E.W. · Matter of SP · In re Declaring S.P. · Matter of JJG
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to ascertain and declare what is in terms or in substance contained therein, not to insert what has been omitted or to omit what has been inserted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of E.A.T.“Dr. Johnson simply was highly suspicious of sexual abuse. If the court concluded that sexual abuse occurred, it has done so erroneously.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of E.A.T.“due process, statutory, and substantive due process rights to his mother's society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of E.A.T.
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.