Simburger v. Simburger’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Prchal v. Prchal (2011), DUFNER v. Trottier (2010)
29 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 McDowell v. McDowell · Greenwood v. Greenwood · Wigginton v. Wigginton · Dvorak v. Dvorak · Gibb v. Sepe
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grant such rights of visitation as will enable the child and the noncustodial parent to maintain a parent-child relationship that will be beneficial to the child, unless the court finds, after a hearing, that visitation is likely to endanger the child's physical or emotional health.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ibach v. Zacher“includes several provisions for parties seeking a custody modification that we have never required for a modification of visitation, including the requirement that the movant establish a prima facie case prior to entitlement of an evidentiary hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DUFNER v. Trottier“clearly recognize that visitation with a noncustodial parent may be curtailed or eliminated entirely if it is likely to endanger the child's physical or emotional health.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Ibarra
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.