Ryan v. White’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We acknowledge that the “favored” status of joint custody specifically applies in divorce cases rather than custody eases involving children born to unmarried parents but note that section 9-10-109 expressly provides that, | sonce paternity has been established, the court is ordered' to follow “the same guidelines, procedures, and requirements ... as if it were a case involving a child born of a marriage in awarding custody [and] visitation— ” Ark. Code Ann. § 9-10-109 .. •. Once paternity is established, the presumption of awarding custody to the mother is erased, and the biological father is afforded the same right to establish a parental and custodial relationship with the child to which a married parent is entitled,.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2016 Ark. App. 363 - Gibson v. Keener

2. “[w]e acknowledge that the “favored” status of joint custody specifically applies in divorce cases rather than custody cases involving children born to unmarried parents but note that section 9-10-109 expressly provides that, once paternity has been established, the court is ordered to follow “the same guidelines, procedures, and requirements ... as if it were a case involving a child born of a marriage in awarding custody [and] visitation .... ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Louton v. Dulaney