Ridenour v. Ridenour

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• upheld statute requiring grandparents to make threshold showing family disrupted and to prove visitations in child’s best interests
• upheld statute requiring grandparents to make threshold showing family disrupted and to prove visitations in child's best interests
• no presumption exists that grandparent visitation is in child’s best interests
• constitutional but using rational relation test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Smith v. Stillwell-Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-12-24· cited 313×
• Beagle v. Beagle
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-08-22· cited 130×
• State Ex Rel. Children, Youth & Families Department v. Ruth Anne E.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1999-01-28· cited 72×
• Graville v. Dodge
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1999-01-28· cited 54×
• Peterson v. Peterson
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1997-02-12· cited 28×
• In Re Custody of Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 2000-03-01· cited 25×
• State Ex Rel. Children, Youth & Families Dep't v. Stella P.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1999-06-22· cited 20×
• Reinhardt v. Reinhardt
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1998-09-25· cited 18×
• Lucero v. Hart
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1995-09-19· cited 15×
• STATE EX REL. CYFD v. Anne McD.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2000-02-15· cited 15×
• State ex rel. Children, Youth & Families Department v. McD.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2000-02-15· cited 15×
• State ex rel. Children, Youth & Families Department v. Senaida C.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2007-11-05· cited 15×
• Berg v. Bragdon
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1997-06-06· cited 14×
• Hopkins v. Wollaber
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2018-12-28· cited 10×
• Von Eiff v. Azicri
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-09-17· cited 9×
• D.W. v. B.C.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2021-10-01· cited 9×
• Petition of Santoro
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1998-07-16· cited 8×
• French-Hesch v. French-Williams
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2009-12-09· cited 7×
• Ward v. Dibble
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-12-06· cited 5×
• State Ex Rel. CYFD v. Ruben C.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2021-07-29· cited 1×

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Santosky v. Kramer
  Supreme Court· 1982-02-22· cited 9,761×
• Prince v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1944-03-27· cited 2,515×
• Moore v. City of East Cleveland
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-31· cited 1,904×
• Zablocki v. Redhail
  Supreme Court· 1978-01-18· cited 1,224×
• Brooks v. Parkerson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 134×
• William Franz v. United States of America
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-05-10· cited 87×
• Jaramillo v. Jaramillo
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1991-12-24· cited 73×
• Griffin v. Strong
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-01-27· cited 73×
• People Ex Rel. Sibley v. Sheppard
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-11-19· cited 70×
• Herndon v. Tuhey
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1993-06-29· cited 66×
• King v. King
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-07-02· cited 61×
• Rhinehart v. Nowlin
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1990-12-18· cited 56×
• Matter of Adoption of JJB
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1995-03-30· cited 55×
• Clovis National Bank v. Harmon
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1984-12-04· cited 54×
• Vest v. State Ex Rel. New Mexico Human Services Department
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1993-11-29· cited 51×
• Roberts v. Ward
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1985-04-18· cited 37×
• Jeantete v. Jeantete
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1990-12-31· cited 36×
• Oldfield v. Benavidez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1994-01-12· cited 31×
• Sketo v. Brown
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-04-09· cited 28×
• Spradling v. Harris
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1989-07-14· cited 20×