Dodd v. Dodd’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “". . . [S]ueh rule applies only to cases where the sole issue before the trial court is whether the parents or the grandparents are entitled to custody of minor children and has no application to a case where both parents are contending for their custody. We have never held that a father whose home has been broken up and who is otherwise entitled to custody of his child can be deprived of that custody simply because the exigencies of making a living compel him to keep it in the home of his parents or that a trial court abuses its discretion when — as here — it requires him to keep it there so long as such court deems it to he to the best interest of the child that that be done.” (Emphasis added.) (p. 49.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schreiner v. Schreiner · Trompeter v. Trompeter

2. ““It is the well settled law of this state that whether a trial court changes the custody of a child from one parent to another, when they have been divorced, is a matter resting in its sound judicial discretion and that its action with respect to changes of such character will not be disturbed on appellate review unless the record makes it clearly appear that discretion has been abused (see Prier v. Lancaster, 169 Kan. 368 , 219 P. 2d 358 ; Kogler v. Kogler, 163 Kan. 62 , 179 P. 2d 940 ; Travis v. Travis, 163 Kan. 54 , 180 P. 2d 310 ; Hayn v. Hayn, 162 Kan. 189 , 175 P. 2d 127 ).” (1. c. 47.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bierce v. Hanson · Thornbrugh v. Thornbrugh