K.S. v. S.H.’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 2003 UT App 432 - State v. Valdovinos (2003), T.H. v. R.C. (2006)
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 Troxel v. Granville · Bradbury v. Valencia · Cramer v. Petrie · Lyon v. Burton · Jensen v. Intermountain Power Agency
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.
“the object of the notice of appeal is to advise the opposite party that an appeal has been taken from a specific judgment in a particular case.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“appeal the ruling of the Court on the Motion to Quash and Objection to Setting Hearings without re-opening the file.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) the state has a compelling interest in providing stable and permanent homes for adoptive children in a prompt manner, in preventing the disruption of adoptive placements.... .... (c) adoptive children have a right to permanence and stability in adoptive placements; (d) adoptive parents have a constitutionally protected liberty and privacy interest in retaining custody of an adopted child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.