Lakey v. McCarroll’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

102 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . a suit to again litigate and again adjudicate the custody of minor children whose custody had already been litigated and adjudicated at a term of court which had expired was regarded as a new suit or an independent cause of action . . . Simply stated, the new suit was not an action to set aside the old judgment and retry the original case, as in an action for bill of review, but was a new and independent action to determine custody on changed facts and circumstances. A bill of review involves the retrial of the original suit; . . .””

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

2. ““* * * and said Court may by judgment, order either parent to make periodical payments for the benefit of such child or children, until same have reached the age of sixteen (16) years * *”

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

3. ““The court shall have power, in all divorce suits, to give the custody and education of the children to either father or mother, * * *(Emphasis added.)”

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