Nevares v. Adoptive Couple’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. “[a]void jurisdictional competition and conflict with courts of other States in matters of child custody.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. B.W.D. v. B.W. (In Re Interest of S.W.) · State ex rel. A.J.B. v. State

2. “determines that neither the child, the child and one parent, nor the child and a person acting as a parent have a significant connection with this state and that substantial evidence is no longer available in this state concerning the child's care, protection, training, and personal relationships,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. B.W.D. v. B.W. (In Re Interest of S.W.)

3. “(citation and internal quotation marks omitted)). 7 ¶15 Under the UCCJEA, a Utah court has jurisdiction to make an initial custody determination 8 only if any one of several different jurisdictional prerequisites are met. Applicable here, a Utah court has jurisdiction if Utah is”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State ex rel. A.J.B. v. State