Ridenour v. Ridenour’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably In Re Custody of Smith (2000), 678 So. 2d 1271 - Beagle v. Beagle (1996)
46 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 · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Moore v. City of East Cleveland · Zablocki v. Redhail · Keene Corp. v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the best interests of the child; (2) the prior interaction between the grandparent and the child; (3) the prior interaction of the grandparent and each parent of the child; (4) the present relationship between the grandparent and each parent of the child; and (5) time-sharing or visitation arrangements that were in place prior to filing of the petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lucero v. Hart“[T]here is no presumed beneficial relationship between grandparents and children; rather, visitation is appropriate only after grandparents have met one of the threshold factors ... and presented evidence to show, among other factors, that visitation is in the child's best interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well established in New Mexico that parents do not have absolute rights in their children; rather, parental rights are secondary to the best interests and welfare of the children.”
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.