Bartlett v. Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 federal appellate · 21 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * This child’s claim to paternal support, unlike the claim of the wife, is not affected by the merits of controversies, however serious, between the spouses. Also, unlike the wife, this child has no income in his own right. From the papers filed by the parties, it is clear that the defendant is able to contribute to the support of the child, whereas the plaintiff’s income alone is scarcely adequate to support herself and the child. In such a case we think the defendant's obligation to contribute to the support of the child is unqualified, if the child in question is issue of his marriage with the plaintiff.” (Emphasis supplied.)”

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

2. “to the extent that it may be construed to be in conflict with the principle that in the matter of the custody of a child, the paramount consideration is the child’s welfare and not the adversary rights of the parents.”

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

3. “`* * * the presumption [is] that small children are better off with their mother * * *,'”

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