Sees v. Baber’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Matter of Baby M. (1988), Matter of Adoption of a Child of Indian Heritage (1988)
57 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Fuentes v. Shevin · Moore v. City of East Cleveland · Smith v. Organization of Foster Families for Equality & Reform · State v. Johnson
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Consent ... may be fixed as a statutory brace for terminating parental rights only in voluntary agency placements. But in an unsupervised private placement, since there is no statutory obligation to consent, there can be no legal barrier to its retraction. [ Id. at 215 ].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It has been recognized that the psychological aspect of parenthood is more important in terms of the development of the child and its mental and emotional health than the coincidence of biological or natural parenthood.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. V.C. v. M.J.B. · Vc v. Mjb“the regular and expected parental functions of care and support of the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.