Fairbanks v. McCarter’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably Troxel v. Granville (2000), Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Scarlett Harbor Associates Ltd. Partnership (1996)
71 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 Mimkon v. Ford · Ross v. Hoffman · Morris v. Prince George's County · Atlantic Mutual Insurance v. Kenney · NCR Corp. v. Comptroller of the Treasury
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he nature and stability of the child's relationships with its parents; the nature and substantiality of the relationship between the child and the grandparent, taking into account frequency of contact, regularity of contact, and amount of time spent together; the potential benefits and detriments to the child in granting the visitation order; the effect, if any, grandparental visitation would have on the child's attachment to its nuclear family, the physical and emotional health of the adults involved; and the stability of the child's living and schooling arrangements.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Beckman v. Boggs · S.F. v. M.D.“(a) Persons to be Joined.-Except as otherwise provided by law, a person who is subject to service of process shall be joined as a party in the action if in the person's absence (1) complete relief cannot be accorded among those already parties, or (2) disposition of the action may impair or impede the person's ability to protect a claimed interest relating to the subject of the action or may leave persons already parties to a substantial risk incurring multiple or inconsistent obligations by reason of the person's claimed interest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) consider a petition for reasonable visitation by a grandparent of a natural or adopted child of the parties whose marriage has been terminated; and (2) if the court finds it to be in the best interests of the child, grant visitation rights to the grandparent. 5”
3 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.