Dickey v. Boxley’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth, Department of Child Welfare v. Jarboe · McKinney v. Quertermous
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“report to the court ... [and its] findings must be accepted by the court unless they are arbitrary or unreasonable”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. A.F. v. L.B.“that the best interest of the child will be promoted by the adoption ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. A.F. v. L.B.
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.