Petersen v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
142 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 140 N.C. App. 288 - In Re Huff (2000), Price v. Howard (1997)
142 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the constitutionally-protected paramount right of parents to custody, care, and control of their children must prevail.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“§ 50-13.1. Action or proceeding for custody of minor child. (a) Any parent, relative, or other person, agency, organization or institution claiming the right to custody of a minor child may institute an action or proceeding for the custody of such child, as hereinafter provided. Unless a contrary intent is clear, the word, “custody” shall be deemed to include custody or visitation or both.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“constitutionally-protected paramount right”
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.