Olson v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Christianson v. Henke (2013), LaChapelle v. Mitten (2000)
26 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 Wisconsin v. Yoder · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Oklahoma v. New Mexico · Licht v. Texas Commerce Bank · Marriage of Pikula v. Pikula
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s in all matters involving court-established family relationships of children, we begin with reference to our paramount commitment to the best interests of the children. We said a century ago, `[t]he cardinal principle in such matters is to regard the benefit of the infant as paramount * * *' and we have reiterated that premise in many recent cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If a parent of an unmarried minor child is deceased, the parents and grandparents of the deceased parent may be granted reasonable visitation rights to the unmarried minor child during minority by the district court upon finding that visitation rights would be in the best interests of the child and would not interfere with the parent child relationship. The court shall consider the amount of personal contact between the parents or grandparents of the deceased parent and the child prior to the application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rohmiller v. Hart“The statute at issue here provides to the grandparents the right to petition for visitation but we believe the legislature, by adopting the statute, intended to protect children from losing contact with their grandparents because of disputes between parents and grandparents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Petition of Santoro
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.