Griggs v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Ex Parte Terry (1986), 410 So. 2d 416 - Ex Parte Berryhill (1982)
65 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 Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Chandler v. Whatley · 38 Cal. 2d 676 - Lerner v. Superior Court
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he courts of this state do not have the power to sever the bonds of blood relationship merely in order to gain some real or fancied advantage for a minor child.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““And as was said in our case of Esco v. Davidson, 238 Ala. 653, 655 , 193 So. 308 , 309: “ ' “The unfitness which deprives the parent of the right of the custody of a child must be positive, and not merely comparative or speculative, and must be shown by clear and satisfactory proof, the burden of proof being on the person contesting the parent’s right to the custody.* * *'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[m]erely because some other person may be more fit should not be a basis for defeating the parent's natural right.'”
2 later decisions 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.