Glidden v. Conley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 state decisions

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

1. “The court's rationale for entering an enforceable visitation order — to eliminate the potential for [father] to restrict visitation due to his otherwise valid parental concerns — is far from compelling, and, standing alone, is not enough to sustain the decision. The court's order is thus precisely the type of decision making which, by disregarding and giving no deference to a fit custodial parent's determination of the child's best interests, exceeds the bounds of the Due Process Clause, violates [father's] fundamental rights, and was held unconstitutional in Troxel . . . . . The court's decision in effect found father a fit parent for all purposes save one: making the decision about how often and in what manner his child would visit with the grandmother. In so deciding, the court erred and its decision cannot stand.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. In re R.A. · In Re RA, Jr.

2. “That a child might benefit from contact with a grandparent . . . [is] not the kind of compelling circumstance [ ] contemplated by the Constitution or this decision.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. In Re CTG · In Re Adoption of Ca

3. “[I]f we can construe the statute in a manner that meets constitutional requirements, we will do so unless the statute's plain language precludes it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re M.C., Juvenile