In Re DM’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2024
1 district · 10 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 Re SR · In Re DB · In Re JR · In re J.R. · In Re AF
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the improvement is so insignificant that it is unlikely the parent will be able to resume parental duties in a reasonable time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Jg“that a valid termination of parental rights does not depend on the availability of permanent foster care or adoption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re SB“most often found when the parent's ability to care properly for the child has either stagnated or deteriorated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Jg
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.