261 Ga. App. 491 - Rainey v. Lange’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Given the allegations the parents have raised against each other (but without making a finding as to the truth or falsity of any of the allegations), the [c]ourt finds that enough issues have been raised that visitation with the maternal grandparents is in the child's best interests and will promote the child's well-being and avoid harm to the child's welfare, by way of providing a system of checks and balances.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Van Leuvan v. Carlisle · 280 Ga. App. 607 - Luke v. Luke

2. “[T]he court may grant any grandparent of the child reasonable visitation rights if the court finds the health or welfare of the child would be harmed unless such visitation is granted, and if the best interests of the child would be served by such visitation. The court shall make specific written findings of fact in support of its rulings. There shall be no presumption in favor of visitation by any grandparent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 301 Ga. App. 441 - Cates v. Jamison

3. “[t]his broad conclusory statement fails to set forth specific findings of fact supporting the trial court's grant of grandparent visitation which would enable this Court to conduct an intelligent review of the merits of this case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 348 Ga. App. 425 - Reid v. Lindsey