Lynch v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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

1. “She doesn’t work, she obviously doesn’t have to work. She can meet her needs by some other way. I can’t get to any of her assets because she doesn’t legally own anything. In terms of this piece of property, it would be nice if we had a judgment, we could go after the property, but she doesn’t own the property and she won’t do anything to get the estate moving along.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lynch v. Lynch

2. “... [A] person found to be in civil contempt cannot be assigned the burden of proving his or her inability to comply with the purging provision____ An affirmative finding that the contemnor is presently able to comply with the purging provision cannot be based solely on the judge’s disbelief of the contemnor’s claim of inability to comply.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reed v. Foley