Williams v. Barbee’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[tlhere is a rebut-table presumption that a parent who has a history of perpetrating domestic violence against the other parent, a child, or a domestic living partner may not be awarded sole legal custody, sole physical custody, joint legal custody, or joint physical custody of a child.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. John E. v. Andrea E. · Sarah D. v. John D.

2. “'We hold today that where a superior court finds that domestic violence occurred, it must make express findings regarding whether the incident or incidents of domestic violence constitute a 'history of perpetrating domestic violence' under AS 25.24.150(h).”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Solomon v. Solomon · McAlpine v. PACARRO

3. “considerable discretion in determining the importance of each statutory factor in the context of a specific case and is not required to weigh the factors equally.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Andrea C. v. Marcus K. · Sheffield v. Sheffield