Brown v. Earnhardt’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
August 2004
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 66 Ill. 2d 28 - Chodzko v. Chodzko · 140 N.J. Super. 91 - In Re Adoption of Child by M. · Chavis v. Witt · Avin Ex Rel. Avin v. Avin · Brown v. Earnhardt
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would seldom, if ever be in the best interests of the child to grant visitation rights to the grandparents when their child, the parent, has such rights. Visitation by grandpar ents should be derivative; otherwise the child might have four, or even six people competing for his company: father, mother, paternal grandparents and maternal grandparents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dodge v. Dodge · Latimer v. Farmer
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.