McBeth v. M.D.K.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Johnson v. Director, Cass County Social Services (2004), Meyers v. J.H. (1998)
28 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 Waagen v. R. J. B. · Heitkamp v. L.J. · Ohlsen v. E. D. · In Interest of DS · Twomey v. G.S.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the mental and physical health of a child are the concerns, it is not enough that a mother indicate a desire to improve”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Interest of JLD · In Re KL“evidence that forms the basis for a reasonable prediction as to future behavior.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he court by order may terminate the parental rights of a parent with respect to his child if ... [t]he child is a deprived child and the court finds that the conditions and causes of the deprivation are likely to continue or will not be remedied and that by reason thereof the child is suffering or will probably suffer serious physical, mental, moral, or emotional harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re KL · In Interest of DR
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.