Mulkey v. Mulkey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When a trial court has made a considered decree of permanent custody the party seeking a change bears a heavy burden of proving that the continuation of the present custody is so deleterious to the child as to justify a modification of the custody decree, or of proving by clear and convincing evidence that the harm likely to be caused by a change of environment is substantially outweighed by its advantages to the child. Thus, when a party seeks to change custody rendered in a considered decree, the proponent of change must not only show that a change of circumstances materially affecting the welfare of the child has occurred since the prior order respecting custody, but he or she must also meet the burden of proof set forth in Bergeron .”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 139 So. 3d 1275 - Odell v. Odell · 212 So. 3d 631 - Atkinson v. Atkinson

2. “Mulkey v. Mulkey , 12-2709 (La. 5/7/13), 118 So.3d 357 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 245 So. 3d 1266 - Vidrine v. Vidrine