State Ex Rel. Human Services Department v. Staples’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Farmington Police Officers Ass'n Communication Workers Local 7911 v. City of Farmington (2006), State v. JADE G. (2007)
93 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
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts risk overlooking important facts or legal considerations when they take it upon themselves to raise, argue, and decide legal questions overlooked by the lawyers who tailor the case to fit within their legal theories.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Torres · State v. Sena
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.