Bazemore v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Ex Parte Devine (1981), In re L.L. (1995)
30 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 Smith v. Organization of Foster Families for Equality & Reform · Quilloin v. Walcott · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Spriggs v. Carson · Sargent v. Massachusetts Accident Co. · Boone v. Boone
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court, in making a determination as to the best interest of a child, [must] make the determination upon specific evidence relating to that child alone. As one court has aptly noted, magic formulas have no place in decisions designed to salvage human values. Lemay v. Lemay, 109 N.H. 217, 218 , 247 A.2d 189, 191 (1968).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Petition of DIS · In re L.W.“[b]ouncing this child back and forth between [caregivers] has not and will not be healthy for her. Each time she is moved, she gets a scar and who knows whether if ever it will be healed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re L.L. · Application of LL“facilitates error in an arena in which there is little room for error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Devine
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.