Green v. White’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The question upon the first trial in a case of a character of this is, which is the more suitable party to be intrusted with the care of the child at that time? The question in the subsequent proceeding is, which is the more suitable at the time of that trial? Since, in determining the second question, the first can not be agitated, it follows that evidence of prior conduct of either party cannot be introduced except to corroborate some evidence of similar conduct . . . since the original decree.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re B_ S_ L · In Re B----S----L

2. ““ * * * The award of custody must necessarily include an adjudication that the parent to whom custody was awarded was a fit and suitable person to have such custody, but it does not necessarily adjudicate that the parent to whom custody was not awarded was a fit or unfit person to have such custody. * * * ” 203 S.W.2d 962 .”

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

3. “authoritatively holding that the status or character of the parent to whom custody was not awarded in a suit for divorce is res adjudicata, and that proof of his or her misconduct prior to the original judgment is inadmissible in a subsequent proceeding for custody.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re B----S----L