In re A.T.’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2020
20 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 Inquiry Into Mm · In re of Inquiry into M.M. · In re S.C. · In re F.H. · Matter of FH
Most-quoted passages
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“[DPHHS attorney]: Your Honor, just for the record, the mother's parental rights to this child have been previously terminated by this court. And the state did have to publish notice for [M.C.], and we did publish that. And that was filed with the court. So at this time we would just ask the court to terminate his parental rights based upon abandonment as well as failure of court ordered treatment. Court had ordered a treatment plan for him. The state has had no contact with [M.C.] since the last time the social worker spoke with him was June of 2004. We could not locate him to serve him at the two addresses that he had provided in the past. So that's why we ended up publishing. We can provide testimony if required. The Court: Mr. Cushman? [M.C.'s counsel]: Your Honor, we have had no contact with [M.C.] and therefore have no position. The Court: State's motion is granted. [DPHHS attorney]: Thank you, Your Honor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re At“a client's parental rights or the statutory requirements that a petitioner present evidence and meet the requisite burden of proof for involuntary termination, as set forth in §§ 41-3-422(5)(a)(iv) and -609(1), MCA. The notion that attorneys have such power is, in my view, inconceivable. ¶ 36 Finally, I note DPHHS's argument in response to M.C.'s request for a hearing complying with statutory requirements that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re At“Read in context, M.C.'s counsel's response to the court is most reasonably construed as precisely what it was a statement that, due to the lack of instruction on whatever the court's query was intended to be, he simply had”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re At
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