Maxwell v. LeBlanc’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 556 So. 2d 545 - In Re Adoption of BGS (1990), T.D. v. M.M.M. (1999)
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 Santosky v. Kramer · 62 Wis. 2d 295 - Slawek v. Stroh · Radford v. Matczuk · Johnson v. Johnson · Gwiszcz Appeal
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A parent not granted custody or joint custody of a child is entitled to reasonable visitation rights unless the court finds, after a hearing, that visitation would not be in the best interest of the child.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Becnel v. Becnel · Aucoin v. Aucoin“[t]he right of visitation is not without its limitations. The rights of any parent are subservient to the best interests of the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is no reason to restrict the applicability of these principles [of parental rights] to parent-child relationships which the law defines as legitimate. No one would argue that the weight of a mother's right to custody of her child should be reduced simply because she is not married to the child's father and has not performed a formal act of legitimation. There may be a misguided tendency to view the situation in a different light when the parent whose right is at stake is the father, but this is so only because of a failure to distinguish between the right which flows from the fact of parenthood, whether that parenthood is legitimate or not, and the possibility of a subsequent forfeiture of parenthood through abandonment or neglect, which may be greater when the relationship between the child's father and its mother, or between the father and the child, has not been formalized. Parenthood itself confers a right to custody, but that right of parenthood may be forfeited by conduct which denies or rejects one's 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.