Meyer v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Rutherford v. Katzenberger (1983), In the Interest of Cooper (1981)
27 state decisions — followed in 10 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 United States v. Tucker · Burgett v. Texas · State v. Roll and Scholl · Danforth v. State Department of Health and Welfare · Duval v. Duval
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“proceedings involve primarily disputes between the parents, due process does not automatically require appointment of counsel to either party,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Nicholas G.“the full panoply of the traditional weapons of the state are marshalled against the defendant parents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Nicholas G.
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.