Lamberts v. Lillig’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2022
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 Troxel v. Granville · D. H. Overmyer Co., Inc. of Ohio v. Frick Co. · Hartig Drug Co. v. Hartig · Santi v. Santi · Callender v. Skiles
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.
“[T]he grandparent-grandchild relationship requirement does not address the presumption that fit parents make decisions that benefit their children. There is nothing in either requirement that mandates the judge to give special weight to the parents’ decision. Accordingly, the statute on its face not only fails to recognize the degree of harm or potential harm to the child needed to support state intervention, but it also fails “to require a threshold finding of parental unfitness.” It also fails to require the court to consider a parent’s objections to allowing visitation. We believe these provisions must be a part of any grandparent visitation statute under our Due Process Clause.”
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.