M.A.B. v. R.B.’s Empirical Analysis

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11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[h]ard facts must be faced.... [T]here is little to gain by creating an artificial world where the children may dream that life is different than it is.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Boswell v. Boswell