Leake v. Grissom’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “.. . [W]hen one or both parents are deceased, any grandparent, who is the parent of the child’s deceased parent, shall have reasonable rights of visitation to the child, when it is in the best interest of the child. The district courts are vested with jurisdiction to enforce such visitation rights and make orders relative thereto, upon the filing of a verified application for such visitation rights. Notice as ordered by the court shall be given to the person or parent having custody of said child and the venue of such action shall be in the county of the residence of such person or parent.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Matter of KS · Application of Grover

2. ““Those statutes [§§ 5 and 60.16(3)] should be construed together in light of the objective doubtless intended by the Legislature_ The post decree adoption was not intended as a barrier (to grandparental visitation) so long as the child remained with at least one blood relative as a parent. The obvious intent of the cited enactments, read together, was to prevent alienation from grandparents in all those instances in which the post-death or post-decree adoption has not placed the offspring beyond the circle of the child’s consanguinity.” Id, dissenting opinion at 1111.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. In Re the Adoption of G.D.L.

3. “[w]e are free to unshackle ourselves from the straitjacket of the past”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. GUZMAN v. GUZMAN