Smith v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2012
14 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 Holick v. Smith · Texas Department of Human Services v. Boyd · State v. Addington · In the Interest of S.H.A. · State v. O'BRIEN
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition requesting termination of the parent-child relationship with respect to a parent who is not the petitioner may be granted if the court finds that:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of BR“to satisfy the requirements of 15.02(1)(D).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of BR
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.