In re Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably In re C.S. (2007), In Re A.G. (2014)
145 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 Gault · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina · 77 Ohio App. 3d 1 - In Re Smith · In re Baby Girl Baxter · 97 Ohio St. 3d 92 - In re Hoffman
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts should make a determination, on a case-by-case basis, whether the child actually needs independent counsel, taking into account the maturity of the child and the possibility of the child's guardian ad litem being appointed to represent the child.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“Pursuant to R.C. 2151.352 , as clarified by Juv.R. 4(A) and Juv.R. 2(Y), a child who is the subject of a juvenile court proceeding to terminate parental rights is a party to that proceeding and, therefore, is entitled to independent counsel in certain circumstances.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“not represented by the child's parent, guardian, or custodian”
12 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.