Adkison v. Adkison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. ““. . . Most recently the Supreme Court of Kansas in the St. Clair case, said that if children are of tender age, they almost of necessity must be entrusted to their mother’s care without weighing unduly what may be some possible shortcoming in the mother’s character or conduct.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dalton v. Dalton