McAllister v. McAllister’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wallin v. Wallin · 38 Md. App. 406 - Montgomery County Department of Social Services v. Sanders · E.N.O. v. L.M.M. · 228 Cal. App. 3d 831 - Nancy S. v. Michele G. · 160 Mich. App. 601 - Atkinson v. Atkinson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a psychological parent and a natural parent each seek a court-ordered award of custody, the natural parent’s paramount right to custody prevails unless the court finds it in the child’s best interests to award custody to the psychological parent to prevent serious harm or detriment to the welfare of the child.” (quotation marks omitted)); Neal v. Lee, 14 P.3d 547, 550 (Okla.2000) (holding that the trial court’s “vague generalization” about the positive effects grandparents have on their grandchildren fell”
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.