Sexton v. J.E.H.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2012
8 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 In Interest of FH · Ohlsen v. M. B. · In Re H. · McGurren v. S.T. · Kleingartner v. D.P.A.B.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Is without proper parental care or control, subsistence, education as required by law, or other care or control necessary for the child’s physical, mental, or emotional health, or morals, and the deprivation is not due primarily to the lack of financial means of the child’s parents, guardian, or other custodian;””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wold v. T.M. · In Interest of KRAG“Although parents have a fundamental right to their child which is of constitutional dimension ..., parental rights will `not be enforced to the detriment or destruction of the happiness and well-being of the child.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Interest of NW
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.