2017 UT App 10 - Blocker v. Blocker’s Empirical Analysis

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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. “To permit meaningful appellate review, briefs must comply with the briefing requirements sufficiently to enable us to understand what particular errors were allegedly made, where in the record those errors can be found, and why, under applicable authorities, those errors are material ones necessitating reversal or other relief.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2018 UT App 181 - Chaparro v. Torero

2. “The [district] court erred when it decided that [Mother's] inability to comply with conditions for her unsupervised parent time constituted a material change in circumstances upon which to base a modification of a custody award.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2019 UT App 82 - Blocker v. Blocker

3. “there have been changes in the circumstances upon which the previous award was based that are sufficiently substantial and material to justify reopening the question.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cox v. Hefley