In re M.D.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 392 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 396 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Mills (1992), State v. Quarterman (Slip Opinion) (2014)
2 federal appellate · 392 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 the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Knapp v. Edwards Laboratories · State v. Awan · State v. Zuern
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 396 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Failure to raise at the trial court level the issue of the constitutionality of a statute or its application, which issue is apparent at the time of trial, constitutes a waiver of such issue and a deviation from this state's orderly procedure, and therefore need not be heard for the first time on appeal.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]ven where waiver is clear, this court reserves the right to consider constitutional challenges to the application of statutes in specific cases of plain error or where the rights and interests involved may warrant it.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“Plain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the court.”
5 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.