Brokenleg v. Butts’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Holick v. Smith (1985), In the Interest of G. M. (1980)
26 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 Holley v. Adams · Wiley v. Spratlan · Herrera v. Herrera · D_F v. State · Heard v. Bauman
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court may order termination of the parent-child relationship if the court finds by clear and convincing evidence: that the parent has: failed to support the child in accordance with the parent's ability during a period of one year ending within six months of the date of the filing of the petition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“without providing for the adequate support of the child,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re NSG
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.