989 So. 2d 1111 - Mrd v. Td’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"In light of the strong public policy favoring visitation, however, in cases where a final judgment (as opposed to a pendente lite order) indefinitely divesting a parent of all visitation rights is entered, that judgment should be based on evidence that would lead the trial court to be reasonably certain that the termination of visitation is essential to protect the child's best interests. Thus, notwithstanding the discretionary role of our learned trial judges, this court will continue to carefully scrutinize judgments divesting parents of all visitation rights with their children. See In re Norwood , 445 So.2d 301 , 303 (Ala. Civ. App. 1984) (reversing judgment denying all visitation to child's mother); Naylor [v. Oden ], 415 So.2d [1118,] 1120 [ (Ala. Civ. App. 1982) ] (reversing judgment denying all visitation to child's mother and stating that 'the rights of natural parents, in visitation disputes as much as custody disputes, should be treated with great deference'); V.C. v. C.T. , 976 So.2d 465 , 469 (Ala. Civ. App. 2007) (main opinion indicating that 'a total denial of visitation rights has been upheld only rarely')."”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. San v. Sen · D.H. v. B.M.

2. “should be exercised with a view towards the policy of preserving relationships between parents and children”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 67 So. 3d 76 - Y.N. v. Jefferson County Department of Human Resources