Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Troxel v. Granville (2000), Roth v. Weston (2002)
62 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Santosky v. Kramer · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"For the constitutional requirement to be satisfied, before visitation can be ordered over the objection of the child's parents, a court must find an actual harm to the child's health or welfare without such visitation."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he court shall give due regard to the primacy of the parent-child relationship”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to constitute a compelling interest, `state interference with a parent's right to raise his or her child must be for the purpose of protecting the child's health or welfare.'”
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.