In re William S.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
781 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 782 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably In re C.F. (2007), In Re Heston (1998)
781 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.
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 782 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(14) The parent for any reason is unwilling to provide food, clothing, shelter, and other basic necessities for the child or to prevent the child from suffering physical, emotional, or sexual abuse or physical, emotional, or mental neglect.”
69 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * cannot be placed with one of the child's parents within a reasonable time or should not be placed with either parent,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“the court shall enter a finding that the child cannot be placed with [the] parent within a reasonable time or should not be placed with either parent”
8 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.