165 N.J. Super. 265 - Hoy v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably In Re Grady (1981), Watkins v. Nelson (2000)
54 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 Smith v. Organization of Foster Families for Equality & Reform · Rova Farms Resort, Inc. v. Investors Insurance Co. of America · State v. Johnson · Mimkon v. Ford · Fantony v. Fantony
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a serious potential for psychological harm”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether any adult becomes the psychological parent of a child is based thus on day-to-day interaction, companionship, and shared experiences. The role can be fulfilled either by a biological parent or by an adoptive parent or by any other caring adult — but never by an absent, inactive adult, whatever his biological or legal relationship to the child may be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. T.B. v. L.R.M.“more than a speculative possibility of harm to [the child].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.