Lycan v. Rockefeller’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1996
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Murphy v. Carron · In the Interest of K.K.M. · Prudential Property & Casualty Ins. Co. v. Cole · Garrison v. State · Johnson v. Johnson
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court holds that the presumption which favors vesting of custody in the natural parent must fall whenever the best interests of the child, for some special or extraordinary reason or circumstance, mandate that custody be vested in third persons, regardless of whether the evidence establishes the unfitness or incompetence of the natural parent.” In Interest of K.K.M., supra at 890.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. C.M.W. v. C.W.
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.