Berg v. Bragdon’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2015
11 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 Sobin v. United States · Hawk v. Hawk · Brooks v. Parkerson · 678 So. 2d 1271 - Beagle v. Beagle · Herndon v. Tuhey
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 1803. Petition 1. Standing to petition for visitation rights. A grandparent of a minor child may petition the court for reasonable rights of visitation or access if: A. At least one of the child’s parents or legal guardians has died; B. There is a sufficient existing relationship between the grandparent and the child; or C. When a sufficient existing relationship between the grandparent and the child does not exist, a sufficient effort to establish one has been made. 2. Procedure. The following procedures apply to petitions for rights of visitation or access under subsection 1, paragraph B or C. A. The grandparent must file with the petition for rights of visitation or access an affidavit alleging a sufficient existing relationship with the child, or that sufficient efforts have been made to establish a relationship with the child. When the petition and accompanying affidavit are filed with the court, the grandparent shall serve a copy of both on at least one of the parents or legal guardians of the child. B. The parent or legal guardian of the child may file an affidavit in response to the grandparent’s petition and accompanying affidavit. When the affidavit in response is filed with the court, the parent or legal guardian shall deliver a copy to the grandparent. C. The court shall determine on the basis of the petition and the affidavit whether it is more likely than not that there is a sufficient existing relationship or, if a sufficient relationship does not exist, that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rideout v. Riendeau“[I]ssues raised for the first time on appeal are generally unpreserved.”). 2 . Except in narrow circumstances, a plaintiff seeking a protection from harassment order based upon a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We have applied this rule consistently whether the alleged right is constitutional or based on the common law,”
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.