Rhinehart v. Nowlin’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Vest v. State Ex Rel. New Mexico Human Services Department (1993), Hickenbottom v. Hickenbottom (1991)
2 federal appellate · 57 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 Santosky v. Kramer · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Hicks Ex Rel. Feiock v. Feiock · Tapia v. Panhandle Steel Erectors Company · Zeman v. Lufthansa German Airlines
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen any person other than a natural or adoptive parent seeks custody of a child, no such person shall be awarded custody absent a showing of unfitness of the natural or adoptive parent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an order for the guardianship, care, custody, maintenance and education of the minor children”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he legislature did not equate custody and visitation rights.”
2 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.