107 Md. App. 206 - In re Barry E.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2021
11 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 38 Md. App. 406 - Montgomery County Department of Social Services v. Sanders · 97 Md. App. 26 - Leary v. Leary · 94 Md. App. 343 - In Re Joseph G. · 219 Md. App. 339 - Coleman v. State
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.
“The fact that appellant has a mental or emotional problem and is less than a perfect parent or that the children may be happier with their foster parents is not a legitimate reason to remove them from a natural parent competent to care for them in favor of a stranger.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Iris M. · In Re Yve S.“It cannot be left up to the unfettered discretion of ... five-year-old children whether to visit with their mother,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boswell v. Boswell
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.