In re Santos’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1990
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 Finlay v. Finlay · In Re State Ex Rel. Thaxton
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as well as [the experience of] authorities in the subject of child abuse, that there is in effect a `child abuse syndrome' and that when one abused child is removed from the home, that another child in the home may become the object of abuse by the parent (Dr. Ray E. Helfer, "The Battered Child", Univ.Press 1968), Matter of Abeena H., 64 Misc.2d 965 , 316 N.Y.S.2d 16 [1970].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re SG
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.