W----H v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1990
6 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 McAshan v. Cavitt · A----Y v. State · In the Interest of S_ H
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“II. CONCLUSIONS OF LAW 14. Penelope Ruth Posner knowingly placed and knowingly allowed the children to remain in conditions or surroundings which endanger the physical or emotional well-being of the children. 15. Termination of the parent-child relationship between Penelope Ruth Pos-ner and the subject children is in the best interest of the children. 16. Robert Franklin Posner knowingly placed and knowingly allowed the subject children to remain in conditions or surroundings which endangered the physical or emotional well-being of the children. 17. Robert Franklin Posner engaged in conduct which endangered the physical or emotional well-being of the children. 18. Termination of the parent-child relationship between Robert Franklin Posner and the subject children is in the best interest of the children.”
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.