526 So. 2d 591 - Snipes v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2017
6 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 479 So. 2d 1292 - Durham v. Heck · Cockrell v. Sittason · Laurent v. Laurent
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Although at one time in this state adoption automatically cut off the grandparents' visitation rights, such has not been the case since 1984 when the legislature enacted what is now codified as Ala.Code (1975), § 26-10-5(b) (1986 Repl.Vol). Under this statute, following a final order of adoption, ‘at the discretion of the court, visitation rights for the natural grandparents of the minor grandchildren may be maintained, or allowed upon petition of modification at any time after the final order of adoption is entered.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. D.T. v. W.G. · Clark v. Leslie“"We should not be understood as saying that, in a case of this nature where a child has been adopted by his stepfather, visitation rights should always be given to the natural grandparents. Under different facts than those now before us, adoption by the wife's new husband — the child's stepfather — would certainly be an important factor in the trial court's determination of whether to award visitation rights to the grandparents."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Leslie“the circumstances of this case . . . warrant a conclusion that the trial court abused its discretion in awarding the paternal grandmother visitation.”
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.