In re Drew R.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably In re Savanna M. (1999), In re Tabitha T. (1999)
60 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 re Juvenile Appeal · In re Rayna M. · In re Christina V. · 14 Wash. App. 651 - In Re Adoption of Webb · In re Maximina V.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consistently held that to allow a child to languish in foster care is not in the child's best interest.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“attempts to achieve contact with a child, telephone calls, the sending of cards and gifts, and financial support.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“the respondent's contact with his son was random at best. . . .”
4 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.