Bac v. Blm’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 2021
3 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 State v. Peterson · State Ex Rel. Smith v. Starke Circuit Court · Huhn v. Quinn · Hall v. Hall · Holm v. Smilowitz
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The district court [must] independently review[ ] the evidence and findings [submitted to a court commissioner] to reach its informed decision. This requirement is especially necessary in child custody cases because [tlhe right to associate with one's immediate family is a fundamental liberty.... Accordingly, a court must afford a parent notice and a meaningful opportunity to be heard before it can deny the parent custody of his or her children.... [Dlistrict courts ... have no authority to abdicate their decision-making responsibilities on these fundamental issues to others.”
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.