Chavez v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[B]ecause safety, security, and stability are critical to child development, the danger of uprooting a child may in some instances rise to a level that significantly impairs the child's emotional development.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re GRW · In Re RTK

2. “satisfactory proof to the court that appointment of a parent as a sole managing conservator or both parents as joint managing conservators would significantly impair the child's physical health or emotional development.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. in the Interest of S.M.D., a Child · In Re SMD

3. “[I]f ... the trial court drew an incorrect conclusion of law by misapplying the law to the facts and the controlling findings of fact do not support a correct legal theory sufficient to support the judgment, an abuse of discretion is shown.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Karanja