In Re Jonathan’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2010
13 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Moore v. City of East Cleveland · Alsager v. District Court of Polk County · Engelhardt v. Bergeron
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We hold that the trial justice in a neglect and/or dependency proceeding be required at least to articulate his findings in regard to the emotional and physical welfare of the child in light of the parent’s alleged misconduct. Unless the state can prove by clear and convincing evidence that a child is actually suffering or is likely to suffer physical and/or emotional harm, there is no reason to disturb the basic security of a family relationship. [Citations omitted.] “We therefore hold that G.L.1956 (1969 Reenactment) § 14 — 1-3(H), requires a finding that the allegedly offending conditions or conduct is, or is likely to become harmful to the best interest of the child before the child may be found to be dependent and/or neglected.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Lee · In Re Lester
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