In re Hector L.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
197 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably In re Daniel C. (2001), In re Stanley D. (2000)
197 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 Santosky v. Kramer · In re Luis C. · 29 Conn. App. 112 - In re Michael M. · In re Adam R. · 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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as it relates to the needs of the particular child”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“Personal rehabilitation as used in the statute refers to the restoration of a parent to his or her former constructive and useful role as a parent.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]t the adjudicatory phase of the termination hearing, the ultimate issue faced by the trial court [is] whether the respondent was better able to resume the responsibilities of parenting at the time of filing the termination petition than [she] had been at the time of the child's commitment.”
12 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.