Blixt v. Blixt’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 district · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003), Koshko v. Haining (2007)
4 district · 117 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Aguilar v. Texas · Gregg v. Georgia · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · United States v. Salerno · Troxel v. Granville
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o succeed, the grandparents must allege and prove that the failure to grant visitation will cause the child significant harm by adversely affecting the child's health, safety, or welfare. The requirement of significant harm presupposes proof of a showing of a significant preexisting relationship between the grandparent and the child.... These standards do not require de facto parental status on the part of the grandparents, but the standards are consistent with our cases concerning de facto parents. [ Blixt, supra, 774 N.E. 2d at 1060-61 .]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“any complaint filed under the statute should be detailed and verified or be accompanied by a detailed and verified affidavit setting out the factual basis relied on by the plaintiffs to justify relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“narrowly tailored to further [that] interest”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re ELMC · Krupien v. Ritcey
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.