In re Valerie H.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2024
7 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 Eggleston v. State · In Re Johanna F. · In Re Arlene G. · Hunter v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) He is mentally handicapped or is not receiving ordinary and proper care and attention, and (2) His parents, guardian, or custodian are unable or unwilling to give proper care and attention to the child and his problems provided, however, a child shall not be deemed to be in need of assistance for the sole reason he is being furnished nonmedical remedial care and treatment recognized by State law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re John P.“[t]o provide for the care, protection, and wholesome mental and physical development of children coming within the provisions of this subtitle; and to provide for a program of treatment, training, and rehabilitation consistent with the child’s best interest____” Section 3-802(b) provides that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re John P.
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.