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← 200 SO3D 654 - Weldon v. Ballow

Weldon v. Ballow’s Empirical Analysis

2015

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Santosky v. Kramer · Stanley v. Illinois · United States v. Salerno · Troxel v. Granville · Curtiss-Wright Corporation v. General Electric Company

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “to his decisions regarding visitation and instead based its decision solely on its determination that visitation would be in the best interest of the children. As he correctly contends, allowing a trial court to award grandparent visitation over the objection of a fit parent based solely on the trial court's determination that it can make a”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “very clearly stated that the presumption could not be overcome 'simply because a state judge believes a "better”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “constitutional challenge to a statute, which is based on the facts of a particular case, and a”
    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.