Lucero v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2022
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 Woolwine v. Furr's, Inc. · State Ex Rel. Bird v. Apodaca · Vest v. State Ex Rel. New Mexico Human Services Department · Rhinehart v. Nowlin · Matter of Paternity of JRW
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the love, affection, and other emotional ties which may exist between the grandparent and child; (2) the nature and quality of the grandparent-child relationship and the length of time it has existed; (3) whether visitation will promote or disrupt the child’s development; (4) the physical, emotional, mental, and social needs of the child; (5) the wishes and opinion of the parents; and (6) the willingness and ability of the grandparent to facilitate and encourage a close relationship among the parent and the child.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) any factors relevant to the best interests of the child; (2) the prior interaction between the grandparent and the child; (3) the prior interaction between the grandparent and each parent of the child; (4) the present relationship between the grandparent and each parent of the child; (5) time-sharing or visitation arrangements that were in place prior to filing of the petition; (6) the effect the visitation with the grandparent will have on the child; (7) if the grandparent has any prior convictions for physical, emotional or sexual abuse or neglect; and (8) if the grandparent has previously been a full-time caretaker for the child for a significant period.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Rigler the parents of the child were never married and the father’s parental rights were terminated. The evidence also indicated that considerable antagonism existed between the mother and the paternal grandmother. The appellate court affirmed the trial court’s denial of visitation because there was no showing that grandparent visitation would be in the child’s best interests, and the evidence indicated that such visitation, in fact, could interfere with the relationship between the mother and the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gutierrez v. Connick
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.