Widick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 986 So. 2d 1172 - JC v. State Department of Human Resources (2007), State v. Kirkpatrick (2002)
97 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 Santosky v. Kramer · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Blackburn v. Blackburn · In re C. G. · In Re the Adoption of Darren Todd 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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Clear and convincing evidence is that measure or degree of proof which will produce in the mind of the trier of fact a firm belief or conviction as to the truth of the allegation sought to be established.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]ppellate review of a parental-bond severance must be conducted by searching for the presence of clear-and-convincing proof.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“appellate review of parental-status-termination decisions must be based upon the clear-and-convincing evidence standard.”
5 later decisions 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.