Mullin v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

136 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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]e reiterate that our role in reviewing findings of fact is not to reweigh evidence or to make findings of credibility de novo.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roy H.A. Watson III v. The Village at Northshore I Association, Inc. · Kerry Clark v. Kyle Bellavance

2. “While a court may require abusive parents to submit to therapy, and parental rights may be terminated without violating the fifth amendment based on the fact that the parents' denial of their problem prevented effective therapy, the court's specific condition requiring the father to acknowledge conduct for which he could be prosecuted must be stricken.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 6 Neb. Ct. App. 754 - In Re Interest of Clifford M.

3. “it is in the best interests of their minor child to have the opportunity for maximum continuing physical and emotional contact with both parents, unless direct physical harm or significant emotional harm to the child or a parent is likely to result from such contact.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nicola Weaver v. David Weaver