D.A. v. Calhoun County Dhr’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 671 (§ 471 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Stanley v. Illinois · Kovacs v. Cooper · Board of Zoning Adjustment v. Williams · 624 So. 2d 589 - Ex Parte State Dept. of Human Resources · 608 So. 2d 1367 - Jlb v. State Dept. of Human Resources
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]overty and limited mentality of a mother, in the absence of abuse or lack of caring, should not be the criteria for taking away a wanted child from the parents”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.