99 Wash. 2d 210 - In Re Esgate’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2018
15 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 94 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Martin · 93 Wash. 2d 689 - In Re the Welfare of Aschauer
Most-quoted passages
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“"(1) That the child has been found to be a dependent child under RCW 13.34.030(2); and "(2) That the court has entered a dispositional order pursuant to RCW 13.34.130; and "(3) That the child has been removed or will, at the time of the hearing, have been removed from the custody of the parent for a period of at least six months pursuant to a finding of dependency under RCW 13.34.030(2); and "(4) That the services ordered under RCW 13.34.130 have been offered or provided and all necessary services, reasonably available, capable of correcting the parental deficiencies within the foreseeable future have been offered or provided; and "(5) That there is little likelihood that conditions will be remedied so that the child can be returned to the parent in the near future; and "(6) That continuation of the parent and child relationship clearly diminishes the child's prospects for early integration into a stable and permanent home[.]" RCW 13.34.180.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]his construction of the statute best serves the legislative goal of insuring that the best interests of the child are protected. See generally In re [Welfare of] Aschauer , 93 Wn.2d 689 , 611 P.2d 1245 (1980). In the instant case, the State established that continuation of the parent/child relationship often created feelings of insecurity and instability in the child. Under such circumstances, termination was proper regardless of the child's adoptability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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