Morrison v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Neither of minor child’s parents, adversely claiming child’s custody, is entitled thereto as of right, but, other things being equal, custody of child of tender years should be given to its mother, while father should be given custody of child of age to require education and preparation for labor or business.” “Award of custody of divorced parents’ three year old son to father was justified by evidence of circumstances of parent’s domicile and location and association of such premises and parents, showing that such award was presently for child’s best interest in respect to his temporal, mental, and moral welfare.” “A district court, awarding custody of divorced spouses’ minor child to father, has continued judicial authority respecting child’s custody and may change or modify award, if required and justified by changed circumstances.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ford v. Ford