Baker v. Tunney’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “temporary emergency jurisdiction if the child is present in [the] state and the child has been abandoned 6 or it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child because the child ... is subjected to[,] or threatened with[,] mistreatment or abuse.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. N.B. v. Dep't of Children of Families

2. “the state in which a child lived with a parent or a person acting as a parent for at least [six-]consecutive months immediately before the commencement of a child custody proceeding.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. N.B. v. Dep't of Children of Families

3. “[t]he state with home state jurisdiction over the child has [jurisdictional] priority under the UCCJEA.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. N.B. v. Dep't of Children of Families