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In Re LT’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
July 2014
most recently cited

7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2014

7 state decisions

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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

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 671 (§ 471 of the Social Security Act of 1935)

Relies on In re N. H. · In Re NH · In re G. F. · In Re GF · In Re RS

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “can not be insured by case plans made in such detail that SRS is locked in to a particular course of action. SRS, as legal custodian, must have the freedom to determine the appropriate placement of the juvenile, and to make adaptations in the case plan as changing circumstances require.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “suited to the protection and physical, mental and moral welfare of the child.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re JS

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.