186 Md. App. 1 - Barrett v. Ayres’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2023
14 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 · Ross v. Hoffman · Walter v. Gunter · Taylor v. Taylor · Koshko v. Haining
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]rders related to visitation or custody are generally within the sound discretion of the trial court, not to be disturbed unless there has been a clear abuse of discretion. See Walter v. Gunter, 367 Md. 386, 391-92 , 788 A.2d 609 (2002); Beckman v. Boggs, 337 Md. 688, 703 , 655 A.2d 901 (1995). However, where the order involves an interpretation and application of statutory and case law, the appellate court must determine whether the circuit court’s conclusions are “legally correct” under a de novo standard of review. Walter, 367 Md. at 391-92 , 788 A.2d 609 .”
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.