In re Tabitha T.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably In re Hector L. (1999), In re John G. (1999)
108 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 Juvenile Appeal v. Commissioner of Children & Youth Services · 1 Conn. App. 463 - In Re Juvenile Appeal (84-3) · 29 Conn. App. 112 - In re Michael M. · 33 Conn. App. 12 - In re Kezia M. · In re Tabitha
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has made reasonable efforts to locate the parent and to reunify the child with the parent, unless the court finds in this proceeding that the parent is unable or unwilling to benefit from reunification efforts.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“Feelings for the natural parent connotes feelings of a positive nature only.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . the statutes imposed upon the department the duty, inter alia, to make reasonable efforts to reunite the child or children with the family. The word reasonable (emphases added) is the linchpin on which the department's efforts in a particular set of circumstances are to be adjudged, using the clear and convincing standard of proof. . . . [R]easonable efforts means doing everything reasonable, not everything possible.”
7 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.