Goff v. Goff’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2022
21 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 Mimkon v. Ford · Noetzelmann v. State · Rowan v. Rowan · 559 So. 2d 381 - Sketo v. Brown · Deen v. Deen
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A grandparent may bring an original action against any person having custody of the grandparent’s minor grandchild to establish reasonable visitation rights to the child if: (i) The grandparent’s child who is the parent of the minor grandchild has died or has divorced the minor grandchild’s other parent and the person having custody of the minor grandchild has refused reasonable visitation rights to the grandparent; or (ii) An unmarried minor grandchild has resided with the grandparent for a period in excess of six (6) consecutive months before being returned to the custody of the minor grandchild’s parents and the parents have refused reasonable visitation rights to the grandparent. (b) In any action or proceeding under subsection (a) of this section, the court may grant reasonable visitation rights to the grandparent of a child if the court finds, after a hearing, that visitation would be in the best interest of the child and that the rights of the child’s parents are not substantially impaired. (c) No action to establish visitation rights may be brought by a grandparent under subsection (a) of this section if the minor grandchild has been adopted and neither adopting parent is a natural parent of the child. (d) In any action or proceeding in which visitation rights have been granted to a grandparent under this section, the court may for good cause upon petition of the person having custody or who is the guardian of the child, revoke or amend the visitation rights grant”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Michael v. Hertzler
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.