Reed v. C.R.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Johnson v. Director, Cass County Social Services (2004), Cleveland v. R.N. (2001)
29 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 In Interest of FH · Maragos v. A.S. · Meyers v. J.H. · W.J.M. v. J.B. · J. S. v. K. G.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he minor children are deprived children and ... the conditions and causes of the deprivation are likely to continue or will not be remedie[d] and by reason thereof, the children are suffering or will probably suffer serious physical, mental, moral or emotional harm. [A]lthough the natural parents indicate a desire to improve, they're unable to demonstrate to this Court the present capacity or capacity within the near future to be an adequate parent. [P]rognostic evidence shows that the parents are presently unable to supply the physical and emotional care for the children and this inability will continue for time enough to render improbable the successful simulation [sic] of the children into the parent family, if the parents' rights are not terminated. ... Cass County Social Services has provided services to the parents in an attempt to remedy the causes of the deprivation and these attempts have not only been reasonable, but have exhausted all that is available and appropriate. [T]here is no basis to believe that there will be any significant improvement of the ability of either parent if given more time and that it is likely that the causes of the deprivation will not end and cannot be remedied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re DN · Cleveland v. R.N.“a serious indifference toward [her] responsibilities and obligations as a parent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... The evidence indicates that [Cliff] has a history of serious criminal activity. He has displayed serious domestic violence against the mother of his child which would presumptively suggest he is a poor candidate for physical custody of his daughter.... The history of irresponsible and violent behavior of [Cliff] continues to make him unable to provide the necessary care for [Cathy]. He continues to be unavailable for many months to provide any emotional support for his daughter. ... [Cathy] is at a critical stage in her life. She has developed emotional attachments with her foster parents. Continuing foster care in the same home or in another for more than another year would only solidify and magnify the attachment concerns already observed. It will make the eventual dislocation more traumatic and places great risk if she must later be assimilated into a permanent home. Delaying the permanency of a family for [Cathy] for at least another year is committing serious mental health and emotional harm to this young child. She can not wait for over another year for her father to get his life together, if he ever can.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re CR
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.