Bradley v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If a parent is not disqualified to have the care and custody of her child, the law presumes that it is to the best interest of the child that he, or she, should have custody, as against third parties. Clayton v. Kerbey, Tex.Civ.App., 226 S.W. 1117 , error ref.; Swift v. Swift, Tex.Civ.App., 37 S.W.2d 241 . “It is,wholly immaterial that the paternal grandparents were fit and suitable persons to be awarded the care and custody of their granddaughter, if the finding of the jury and the court that the mother was a fit and suitable person to be entrusted with her care and custody is supported by the evidence. There may be many suitable persons to be awarded the care and custody of a minor child, but this fact alone would not justify nor authorize a court to deprive a parent of the custody of his child.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mecke v. Grubbs