Evans v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Fairbanks v. McCarter (1993), Vest v. State Ex Rel. New Mexico Human Services Department (1993)
25 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 Hild v. Hild · Hood v. Hood · Barnard v. Godfrey · Pangle v. Pangle · Collins v. Gilbreath
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In HB 1205 grandparents are not automatically deemed a group to be considered in the awarding of visitation rights. They are, however, a category that may be considered for visitation rights. And once they are considered, they may be awarded the rights if it is in the best interest of the child. * * * * * * “The language puts no mandatory restrictions on a judge when he determines visitation rights. It only offers a category he may consider if the child would benefit from the visits.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Chapter 678 of the Acts of 1968 added Code (1957, 1966 RepLVol.) Art. 16, § 66(f) to provide, under certain circumstances, continuing jurisdiction over ‘custody or visitation rights’ of children removed from the State. This provision is codified as § 9-302 of the Family Law Article.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rypma v. Stehr“[w]hile an in loco parentis status may affect the court's determination as to the best interests of the child,”
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.