State Ex Rel. Corbin v. Hovatter’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2014
4 district · 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina · State Ex Rel. Corbin v. Pickrell · In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. JD-561 · People Ex Rel. Babbitt v. Green Acres Trust
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A due process analysis begins from the presumption that an indigent’s right to appointed counsel is recognized only where the litigant may lose his physical liberty if he loses the litigation. The presumption is weighed against the three elements set out in Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 335, 96 S.Ct. 893, 903 , 47 L.Ed.2d 18, 33 (1976): the nature of the private interests at stake, the interest of the state, and the risk that the procedures used will lead to erroneous decisions. Each of these elements, individually weighed, are then set against the presumption. Unless the individual’s interests are strong, the state’s interests weak, and the risk of error high, it cannot be said that due process requires the appointment of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Kory L.
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.