In re Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2024
22 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 Troxel v. Granville · Dames & Moore v. Regan · State v. Ball · Reno v. Kim Ho Ma · Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The] application of the best interests of the child standard in a custody dispute between a natural ... parent and a nonparent would offend due process if the parent’s conduct towards the child has not been inconsistent with the parent’s constitutionally protected status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re R.A.
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.