Kiddie v. Kiddie’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Teel v. Teel (1988), Larman v. Larman (1999)
37 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Gault · Kirby v. Illinois · Boddie v. Connecticut · Mempa v. Rhay
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As yet we have found no recognition by a state court of a constitutionally grounded right to appointment of counsel in a divorce proceeding. Oklahoma recognizes no absolute constitutional right to a divorce. While assistance of counsel is certainly helpful in obtaining relief, without the existence of this constitutional right, the protection of the fourteenth amendment due process and its consequent right to counsel do not emerge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the right to counsel generally has been held inapplicable to civil proceedings. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leding v. Furr
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.