In Re JS’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2024
20 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 675 (§ 475 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Lynch v. Dukakis · In Re MCP · In re G. F. · In Re GF · Condosta v. Condosta
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct is or may be detrimental or harmful to the child, and will tend to defeat the execution of the order of disposition”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re B.F. · In Re CW“The juvenile court exercises special and very limited statutory powers. Generally, unless statutory authority exists for a particular procedure, the juvenile court lacks the authority to employ it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re KH“The juvenile court's decision will stand on appellate review unless the record indicates that the court exercised its discretion for clearly untenable reasons or to an extent clearly unreasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re JD
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.