People v. DAK’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 14 Va. App. 391 - Jackson v. W. (1992), State v. Kameenui (1988)
38 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 United States v. Petrillo · State v. McMaster · 38 Colo. App. 110 - People in Interest of SST · Robinson v. People in Interest of Zollinger · 68 Wash. 2d 587 - In Re Todd
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fundamental fairness does not require a statute to enumerate in all-encompassing examples, or exactly described acts, precisely how poorly a parent can treat a child before risking loss of parental rights. [Citation omitted.]. Our legal system occasionally requires courts to draw lines.... Furthermore, the statute is as explicit as could be in order to accomplish the purposes intended. United States v. Petrillo, 332 U.S. 1 , 67 S.Ct. 1538 , 91 L.Ed. 1877 (1946). The protection of an abused or mistreated child is an area of legitimate legislative concern which does not lend itself to more precise definition. A legislature would find it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to write a statute more specific to accomplish the purposes of protecting the child's safety and welfare while still allowing the juvenile court reasonable flexibility in determining the best interests of the child and society in each case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An ordinarily reasonable parent can understand what it means to 'abuse' and 'mistreat' a child. Fundamental fairness does not require a statute to enumerate in all-encompassing examples, or exactly described acts, precisely how poorly a parent can treat a child before risking losing parental rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“s status. As our supreme court in People v. D.A.K. , 198 Colo. 11 , 15, 596 P.2d 747 , 749-50 (1979), explained: A proceeding to determine whether a child is dependent or neglected is designed to determine the child”
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.