United States v. McMaster’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * That sense is defined in Black’s Law Dictionary: ‘In the place of a parent; charged factitiously with a parent’s rights, duties, and responsibilities.’ 42 C.J.S., In, page 489, adds: ‘more specifically, the relationship which a person assumes toward a child not his own, holding the child out to the world as a member of his family toward whom he owes the discharge of parental duties;’ * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 106 So. 2d 614 - Weigl v. Ombres