Mayfield v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2010
12 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 the Interest of G. M. · Wiley v. Spratlan · H. W. J. v. State Department of Public Welfare · Compasano v. State · In the Interest of Hare
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“course of conduct which has the effect of placing or allowing the children to remain in conditions which endanger their physical or emotional well-being, a judgment terminating the parent-child relationship may be justified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gwh v. Dah“that appellant, while confined in prison, could have sent for child support part of such funds as were sent to him by his family for toilet articles not furnished by the State”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re LJN
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.