A.E. v. Christean’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State Ex Rel. E.R. (2001), NATIONAL ELEC. CONTRACTORS v. Riveland (1999)
38 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 Brinkerhoff v. Forsyth · Soter's, Inc. v. Deseret Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · State in Interest of JJT · Board of Education of the Granite School District v. Salt Lake County · State in Interest of PH v. Harrison
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would bypass the steps established by the Legislature for final determination of a child's status.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f reunification services were ordered by the juvenile court under [Utah Code] section 78-3a-311, the court must return custody of the child to his or her parent "unless it finds, by a preponderance of the evidence, that return of the child would create a substantial risk of detriment to his [or her] physical or emotional well-being." If reunification services were not ordered pursuant to section 78-3a-311, there is no applicable presumption or burden of proof, and the juvenile court within its discretion determines whether a parent has shown improvement so as to reunify the parent and child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“dependent on an interpretation of section 78-3a-3[08(2)] of the Utah Code. `We review questions of statutory interpretation for correctness giving no deference to the trial court's interpretation.'”
2 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.