Reece v. Reece’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2017
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Wolff Shoe Co. v. Director of Revenue · State Ex Rel. Rothermich v. Gallagher · Metro Auto Auction v. Director of Revenue · Ortmeyer v. Bruemmer · Tribune Publishing Co. v. Curators of the University of Missouri
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ljetters of guardianship for a minor should not issue unless there is no parent available, willing or able to fulfill the parental role in caring for a child and providing for that child’s needs as natural guardian. It is only when no natural guardian is fulfilling the parental duties and obligations [that] the appointment of a statutory guardian [is] necessary.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Where a minor has no parent living; (2) Where the parents or the sole surviving parent of a minor are unwilling, unable or adjudged unfit to assume the duties of guardianship; (3) Where the parents or the sole surviving parent have had their parental rights terminated under chapter 211, RSMo.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““One distinction between a natural guardian and a statutory guardian is that a parent’s duty to provide for a child is a personal obligation which cannot be satisfied when, by chance, another provides that service in the parent’s stead. For example, when parents are tried for criminal non-support of their children, ‘[t]he fact the minor child does not suffer deprivation of necessary food, clothing, lodging, medical or surgical attention, or or that such needs are being supplied by another, does not abrogate the parent’s obligation under the statute.’ State v. Morovitz, 867 S.W.2d 506, 508 (Mo. banc 1993) (emphasis added). Likewise, under the law of parental abandonment, it would be unfathomable if ‘a parent could have absolutely no contact with his child, spend no money on the cost of raising his child, and take no responsibility for rearing his child and yet still not abandon his child because he first asked someone else to take care of the child.’ H.D. v. E.D., 629 S.W.2d 655, 658 (Mo.App.1982).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. D.L.M. v. S.M.P.
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.