In Re MB’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State Ex Rel. Commissioner of Transportation v. Medicine Bird Black Bear White Eagle (2001), In Re Dependency of AK (2007)
41 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Goldberg v. Kelly · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Shillitani v. United States
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“commitment to juvenile detention for a period of time not to exceed seven days.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re N.M. · In Re Dependency of AK“On the rare occasion when a juvenile court decides it must disregard the statutory seven-day limit and resort to its inherent contempt powers, the court must enter a finding as to why the statutory remedy is inadequate and articulate a reasonable basis for believing why some other specific period of detention will achieve what seven days will not.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a sanction imposed to punish a past contempt of court for the purpose of upholding the authority of the court.”
4 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.