Gray v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Generally, a state secures the status of ‘home state’ if a child has lived in that state with a parent or a person acting as a parent for a period of six months preceding the commencement of a child-custody proceeding. § 30-3B-102(7). Pursuant to its definition, the- term ‘home state’ is expressly applied to children less than six months of age, and the requirement that the child live in a state for at least six months preceding the commencement of a child-custody proceeding is relaxed to make the home state that state % which the child lived from birth with [a parent or a person acting as a parent].’ Id.””

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

2. ““The undisputed evidence before the Alabama trial court is that the child was born in Michigan and that the child has lived since birth with the mother in Michigan. Thus, the child’s home state is Michigan, and the Alabama trial court lacks subject-matter jurisdiction under § 30-3B-201(a)(l) to make an initial child-custody determination regarding the child.””

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

3. ““We agree with the Supreme Court of Illinois’s construction of the statute and determine that the drafters of the UC-CJEA intended ‘lived - from birth’ to mean where a child, with a parent or a person acting as a parent, has a presence—beyond simply a hospital stay attendant to giving birth in a state—such as residing within or occupying a home together.””

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