In Re Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2013
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 73rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on Walker v. Packer · Texas Ass'n of Business v. Texas Air Control Board · Mayhew v. Town of Sunnyvale · Wiley v. Spratlan · Baker v. Goldsmith
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All fifty states have enacted some version of the [UCCJEA-predecessor] UCC JA, and virtually all have interpreted it to apply to suits involving the termination of parental rights and adoption, including revocation of consent, because suits of this nature inevitably affect custody and visitation, and broad application of the uniform act promotes its underlying purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berwick v. Wagner“[f]ormer parents do not have standing to invoke the trial court's continuing jurisdiction over managing conservatorship issues”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re HMM
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.