In Re BM’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably State Ex Rel. B.R. (2007), State in Interest of ML (1998)
27 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 · In Re DB · In Re J. & J. W. · In Re AC · In Re JR
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[from the child's perspective, at least, the earlier period of stagnation is not necessarily wiped out by the later improvement. The harm may have been done'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. S.M. v. State · State Ex Rel. B.R.“[t]his is not a case in which the State disrupted a parent-child relationship by removing the child from the home, and then argued that the subsequent weakening of the parent-child bond should be grounds for termination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re CL“loss of the psychological parent relationship between natural parent and child”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re CL
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.