King v. Ochoa’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2021
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.
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Smith · Richmond v. State · Swaffar v. Swaffar · Hanners v. Giant Oil Co. of Arkansas, Inc. · Dougan v. Gray
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.
“Her consent does not change my mind about this. This is evidently a parent that by virtue of the consent does not want anything to do with the child. And, while this is an unfortunate set of circumstances, she still has the financial responsibility to look to and provide for that child. The state and the custodial parent have the obligation to pursue that, unless they are able to take care of the child financially themselves. In the event that the custodial parent were to pass away, if I were to grant this adoption, there would be no one else out there except you and I and the state to take care of this child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Parental rights and the integrity of the family unit have always been a concern of this state and their protection regarded as a proper function of the courts. See [ In re Adoption of ] Parsons, [ 302 Ark. 427 , 791 S.W.2d 681 (1990)]. The conditions upon which parental rights are to be terminated are a question of policy, the resolution of which is addressed in a democracy to the policy-making branch of government, the General Assembly, and it is not for the courts to make a statute say something that it clearly does not. Id. (citing Davis v. Smith, 266 Ark. 112 , 583 S.W.2d 37 (1979)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We hold that this policy concern of the circuit court is a question that should be addressed by the legislature.”
1 later decision 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.