Smith v. McLin’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Santosky v. Kramer · Stanley v. Illinois · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition requesting termination of the parent-child relationship with respect to a parent who is not the petitioner may be granted if the court finds that: (1) the parent has: (A) voluntarily left the child alone or in the possession of another not the parent and expressed an intent not to return....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Swinney v. Mosher
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.