In re C.H.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 122 Cal. App. 4th 626 - Fresno County Department of Children & Family Sevices v. Superior Court (2004), In re K.B. (2013)
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
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 1901 (§ 2 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978) · 25 U.S.C. § 1902 (§ 3 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978) · 25 U.S.C. § 1915 (§ 105 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978)
Relies on Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield · In re M.E.M. Youth in Need of Care · In Re the Adoption of Riffle · Matter of Adoption of Riffle · Matter of Baby Boy Doe
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]he request of the biological parents ... (ii)[t]he extraordinary physical or emotional needs of the child as established by testimony of a qualified expert witness, (iii)[t]he unavailability of suitable families for placement after a diligent search has been completed for families meeting the preference criteria.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“protect the best interests of Indian children and to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families by the establishment of minimum Federal standards for the removal of Indian children from their families ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re J.J.C. · In re M.R.G.“[i]n any adoptive placement of an Indian child under State law, a preference shall be given, in the absence of good cause to the contrary, to a placement with (1) a member of the child's extended family; (2) other members of the Indian child's tribe; or (3) other Indian families.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re MB
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.