Greeson v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2025
16 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 Santosky v. Kramer · Champagne v. WELFARE DIV. OF NEV. STATE DEPT. · Drury v. Lang · Sernaker v. Ehrlich · Carson v. Lowe
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ground, and the considerations relating to the child's best interest as the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(citation omitted). This amendment did not alter the requirement set out in NRS 128.105 and Champagne that at least one of the grounds alleging parental fault must be proven by clear and convincing evidence. In affirming the district court's order terminating the father's parental rights, the Greeson court explained that under NRS 128.105”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an order of the court for termination of parental rights must be made ... with the initial and primary consideration being whether the best interests of the child would be served by the termination, but requiring a finding”
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.