In re Antonio M.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably In re Daniel C. (2001), In Re Jorden R. (2009)
58 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 State v. Golding · Pandolphe's Auto Parts, Inc. v. Town of Manchester · Secondino v. New Haven Gas Co. · In re Luis C. · 6 Conn. App. 194 - In re Migdalia M.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In contrast to custody proceedings, in which the best interests of the child are always the paramount consideration and, in fact, usually dictate the outcome, in termination proceedings the statutory criteria must be met before termination can be accomplished and adoption proceedings can begin. No all-encompassing best interests standard vitiates the requirement of compliance with the statutory criteria. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“everything reasonable, not everything possible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well established that in cases tried before courts, trial judges are the sole arbiters of the credibility of witnesses and it is they who determine the weight to be given specific testimony.”
2 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.