Bounds v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. ““In these matters the desire of the parent for the child, which is a natural emotion, is secondary. Children of tender years are but helpless hostages given to fortune in an environment or condition which is not of their making and in which they would be helpless indeed were it not for the conscience of Chancery.” Bounds v. Dunn, 234 Ark. 514 , 353 S. W. 2d 20 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Townsend v. Lowrey

2. ““ ‘A party seeking xnodificatioxx of a divorce decree provisioxx for custody of a child on the ground of changed coxiditions bears the burden of proof of changed conditioxxs warranting a xnodificatioxx in the interest of the child.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Townsend v. Lowrey

3. “"... such orders cannot be changed without proof showing a change in circumstances from those existing at the time of the original order ...” (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Townsend v. Lowrey