State Ex Rel. Walter B.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably In re J. P. (1982), State in Interest of JRT v. Timperly (1988)
1 district · 24 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 23 Utah 2d 407 - State Ex Rel. Pilling v. Lance · 14 Utah 2d 47 - State v. Dade · 20 Utah 2d 50 - In Re State in Interest of Jennings · State ex rel. Mario A. · In Interest of Winger
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.
“A parent has a `fundamental right, protected by the [United States] Constitution, to sustain [a] relationship with his [or her] child.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The court may decree a termination of all parental rights with respect to one or both parents if the court finds: (a) That the parent or parents are unfit or incompetent by reason of conduct or condition seriously detrimental to the child; .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The statute does not provide that termination may be predicated on the best interests of the child; this is a standard applicable to a custody disposition. The best interests of the child may be a resulting benefit, but it cannot be the primary point of departure upon which the termination hinges. When a termination of parental rights is involved, there must be strict adherence to the expressed statutory grounds.”
1 later decision 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.