Ex Parte Bronstein’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Vest v. State Ex Rel. New Mexico Human Services Department (1993), Hamit v. Hamit (2006)
41 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 · Poe v. Case · Browning v. Tarwater · 50 Ohio App. 2d 83 - Graziano v. Davis · Matter of Adoption of Gardiner
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[Glrandparent visitation, when against the wishes of the adoptive parents, would never be in the best interests of the child and that visitation rights of grandparents are derived from the rights of biological parents and, therefore, when an adoption decree terminates parents' rights, the rights of grandparents are also terminated."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[A]n adoption of a child must necessarily sever all former family bonds and relationships. The courts are not free, therefore, to intervene on behalf of relatives who seek visitation, especially when the child's adoptive parents have decided not to permit visitation."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Alabama is a common law state, and there is no question that the common law did not allow grandparents a legal right of visitation, and the legislature has not seen fit to abrogate this common law rule."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.