Rust v. Buckler’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2018
19 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 Dillard Department Stores, Inc. v. Polinsky · State v. COMMISSIONERS OF MADISON COUNTY · AMISUB (Saint Joseph Hospital), Inc. v. Board of County Commissioners · In Re Estate of Luckey · In Re Estate of Darling
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A grandparent may seek visitation with his or her minor grandchild if: (a) The child’s parent or parents are deceased; (b) The marriage of the child’s parents has been dissolved or petition for the dissolution of such marriage has been filed, is still pending, but no decree has been entered; or (c) The parents of the minor child have never been married but paternity has been legally established.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pier v. Bolles“After a decree of adoption is entered, the usual relation of parent and child and all the rights, duties and other legal consequences of the natural relation of child and parent shall thereafter exist between such adopted child and the person or persons adopting such child and his, her or their kindred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pier v. Bolles
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.