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In re AK. V.’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
January 2017
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 675 (§ 475 of the Social Security Act of 1935)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Mezzanatto · Gooch v. Skelly Oil Co. · In re L.W. · In re C. I. T.

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]hat course does not provide an apt remedy here, where the effect of a failure by counsel to protect the client's rights may be loss of the ability to contest a court-ordered separation of child from parent.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re RES
  2. “in a civil case the usual remedy for misfeasance or nonfeasance on the part of counsel is for the aggrieved party to bring a malpractice suit against the attorney seeking monetary damages.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re RES
  3. “[W]e [were] unwilling to conclusively impute counsel's knowledge [that an appealable order had been issued] to appellant with the result that appellant's right to judicial review is lost,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re RES

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.