Baran v. Beaty’s Empirical Analysis
526 F.3d 1340 · 2008
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably Abbott v. Abbott (2010), United States v. Newman (2010)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 11601 (International Child Abduction Remedies Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 11603
Relies on Friedrich v. Friedrich · Feder v. Evans-Feder · Nunez-Escudero v. Tice-Menley · Richard Charles Whallon Jr v. Diana Lynn · Blondin v. Dubois
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) that return would expose the child to a “grave risk” of “physical or psychological harm or otherwise place [the child] in an intolerable situation” and (2) that return of the child would not be permitted by “fundamental principles of the United States relating to the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a duty to prove that [a] child’s country of habitual residence is unable or unwilling to ameliorate the grave risk of harm which would otherwise accompany the child’s return”); Van De Sande v. Van De Sande, 431 F.3d 567 , 571 (7th Cir.2005) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. West v. Dobrev · Wigley v. Hares“The Convention and [ICARA] empower courts in the United States to determine only rights under the Convention and not the merits of any underlying child custody claims.”
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.