Odoms v. Batts’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2014
17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 285th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Holick v. Smith · Wortham v. Walker · Perkins v. State · In the Interest of McLean · Cawley v. Allums
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a suit in which termination of the parent-child relationship is requested, the court shall appoint an attorney ad litem to represent the interests of: (1) an indigent parent of the child who responds in opposition to the termination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The natural rights existing between a parent and his (her) natural child are of constitutional dimensions, and involuntary termination of parental rights statutes must be strictly construed in favor of the parent.... We hold that the trial court was required to appoint an attorney ad litem to represent appellant in this case, and the failure to do so constitutes reversible error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re CDS“(a) In a suit in which termination of the parent-child relationship is requested, the court shall appoint an attorney ad litem to represent the interests of each indigent parent of the child who responds in opposition to the termination.”
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.