Farrell v. Denson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 2001
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Murphy v. Carron · Barry v. Barrale · 224 Mo. App. 773 - Jegglin v. Orr · Matter of Cer
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. The court may grant reasonable visitation rights to the grandparents of the child_ The court may grant grandparent visitation when: “(1) The parents of the child have filed for a dissolution of their marriage. A grandparent shall have the right to intervene in any dissolution action solely on the issue of visitation rights. Grandparents shall also have the right to file a motion to modify the original decree of dissolution to seek visitation when such rights have been denied to them; “(2) One parent of the child is deceased and the surviving parent denies reasonable visitation rights; or “(3) A grandparent is unreasonably denied visitation with the child for a period exceeding ninety days. “2. Visitation may only be ordered when the court finds such visitation to be in the best interests of the child. The court may order reasonable conditions or restrictions....””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whoberry v. Whoberry
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.