Daubert v. Daubert’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is our best judgment that the children remain in the custody of their mother. We believe that the compromise solution of the chancellor does not give due regard for the welfare of the children and find no strong reason affecting the welfare of the children to depart from the custody award under the divorce decree with which appellee had at one time been content. We cannot conceive how it would be in the best interest of the children to take them from the mother, place them with the father in Israel for three years, then uproot them again and return them to the mother in the United States for three years, leaving their future at the end of the six year period to be later determined.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 124 Md. App. 288 - Schaefer v. Cusack

2. ““We see none of the parties. The Chancellor had the parties and the witnesses before him. He was able to observe their demeanor and general appearance while on the stand, to judge of their. character, probable attitude toward, and their probable influence over the infant. He also had the opportunity to talk to the infant. Unless there is some reason to the contrary, his findings ought not to be disturbed.” Id. at 309 .”

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