Rice v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “was final, December should have had the burden of showing a material change in circumstances at the August 2017 hearing before the circuit court reinstated custody of L.B. to her. He further claims that the circuit court made him prove his case twice. As December points out, it appears that Jason did not raise this issue below, and if he did, he failed to obtain a ruling. The circuit court did not rule on this issue in either its oral ruling from the bench in August 2017 or in its written order entered in September 2017.”

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

2. “Because this allegation of error was not raised and decided below, we are precluded from reaching its merits now.”

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

3. “A party is bound by the scope and nature of the arguments made at trial.”

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