Barker v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Murphy v. Carron · Troxel v. Granville · Herndon v. Tuhey · Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Director of Revenue · Blakely v. Blakely
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court was required to consider the parents’ right to make decisions regarding their children’s upbringing, determine the reasonableness of those decisions, and then balance the interests of the parents, child, and grandparents in determining whether grandparent visitation should be ordered pursuant to section 452.402. Although parental decisions are given material weight, the trial court may determine the reasonableness of those decisions based on the evidence. The court is not required to accept blindly a parent’s reason for denying visitation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keeran v. Myers
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.