Logan v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2003
7 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 Stone v. Duffy · Schumacher v. Schumacher · 238 Mo. App. 964 - Hupp v. Hupp and Warren · Prock v. Morgan · Price v. Price
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * When one natural parent is deceased and the surviving natural parent remarries, any subsequent adoption proceedings shall not terminate any grandparental rights belonging to the parents of the deceased natural parent unless ordered by the court and after opportunity to be heard, provided the district court deems it in the best interest of the child.” [Emphasis added] The applicable part of § 60.16(3) provides: “When one or both natural parents of a child are deceased or if they are divorced and a consent to adoption is executed to a blood relative, any grandparent, who is the parent of the child’s deceased or divorced natural parents, may be given reasonable rights of visitation to the child . ”, [Emphasis added]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leake v. Grissom“There is no authority, statutory or otherwise, in this state which authorizes a third party to file a petition for modification of the court’s judgment relative to the care and custody of children in a divorce proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDonald v. Wrigley
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.