Matter of Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 1990
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Duke City Lumber Company, Inc. v. Terrel · Doe Ex Rel. Doe v. Heim · State Ex Rel. Health & Social Services Department v. Natural Father · State v. Garcia · Henderson v. Henderson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“5. The conditions and causes leading to the neglect [of mother’s three youngest children] are unlikely to change in the foreseeable future despite reasonable efforts of the Department of Human Services or other agency to assist [mother] in trying to adjust the psychological and emotional conditions which have rendered her unable to properly care for her children.”
1 later decision 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.