In re Ella B.’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably State ex rel. Heller v. Miller (1980), 385 So. 2d 83 - In Interest of DB (1980)
12 federal appellate · 74 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Stanley v. Illinois · Boddie v. Connecticut · Meltzer v. C. Buck LeCraw & Co. · In Re Robinson
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A parent's concern for the liberty of the child, as well as for his care and control, involves too fundamental an interest and right ... to be relinquished to the State without the opportunity for a hearing, with assigned counsel if the parent lacks the means to retain a lawyer. To deny legal assistance under such circumstances would as the courts of other jurisdictions have already held ... constitute a violation of his due process rights and, in light of the express statutory provision for legal representation for those who can afford it, a denial of equal protection of the laws as well.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of KLJ · Matter of K.L.J.
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.