In re W.L.’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Troxel v. Granville · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc. · 135 S. Ct. 2584 - Obergefell v. Hodges · In Re Marriage of Ross
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“more believable, credible, and worthy of weight than the testimony of [M.S.], particularly where the [two] were in conflict,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re W.L.“the legal relationship . . . incident to which the law confers or imposes rights, privileges, duties and obligations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re W.L.“not based on marital status, sexual orientation, or gender”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re W.L.
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.