Reynolds v. Kimmons’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 24 Cal. 3d 22 - Salas v. Cortez (1979), 305 Pa. Super. 179 - Corra v. Coll (1982)
2 district · 28 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1673 · 42 U.S.C. § 656 (§ 456 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 659 (§ 459 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 43 U.S.C. § 1606
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Grannis v. Ordean · Trimble v. Gordon · Baker v. City of Fairbanks
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Parents are entitled to a judicial decision on the right to counsel in each case. The determination should be made with the understanding that due process requires the state to appoint counsel whenever an indigent parent, unable to present his or her case properly, faces a substantial possibility of the loss of custody or of prolonged separation from a child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of KLJ · Matter of K.L.J.“The court shall appoint counsel to represent the child, his parents, guardian, or custodian, when the assistance of counsel is desired, as follows: (3) For his parents . . . when they are financially unable to employ counsel to represent themselves and the issues are complex or have serious consequences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flores v. Flores“In light of the fact that paternity suits, in effect, are brought by the State, the significance of the parent-child relationship involved and the peculiar problems presented, we hold that due process requires the appointment of counsel for an indigent defendant.”
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.