563 So. 2d 1032 - Shoemaker v. Shoemaker’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2016
15 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 Chandler v. Whatley · 410 So. 2d 416 - Ex Parte Berryhill · Ex Parte Bronstein · Horton v. Gilmer · State of Alabama Department of Revenue v. Cory & Horton, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“review of the case law on the subject of `former stepparent visitation privileges' reveal[ed] that only after the best interests and welfare are raised and shown to be advanced by such visitation, would a trial court then have the discretion to award such privileges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here is no prohibition against a former stepparent seeking, and being awarded in appropriate circumstances, visitation privileges with their former stepchild if the best interests of a child are involved and brought to the attention of a trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Such an award would not arise from the relationship or a legal privilege (as granted by statute to grandparents, § 30-3-3) but from the inherent power of the court to act to promote the best interests of a child.”
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.