Wiley v. Spratlan’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2004
4 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 Cawley v. Allums · Leithold v. Plass · Miller v. Watters · Ayala v. Waldner · Barrie v. Costello
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A petition requesting termination of the parent-child relationship with respect to a parent who is not the petitioner may be granted if the court finds that: (1) the parent has: * * * * * * (E) failed to support the child in accordance with his ability during a period of one year ending within six months of the date of the filing of the petition; * * * and (2) termination is in the best interest of the child."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wiley v. Spratlan
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.