Patnode v. Urette’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. “Where the inherent purpose of an amendment to an existing order is not to change the terms of the original order, but to help the parties meet the original terms, it is well within the court's discretion to view such alterations as clarifying rather than modifying.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Patnode v. Urette

2. “[W]e will not reverse the court's decision unless its discretion was exercised upon unfounded considerations or to an extent clearly unreasonable upon the facts presented.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Patnode v. Urette

3. “[i]t bears emphasizing that the superior court did not in any way alter the amount of time that each parent was awarded with the child under the PCC order.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Patnode v. Urette