King v. Shrum’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““From the decree entered, it is to be inferred that the trial court concluded from all the evidence that the best, interest of this child would be better served for the child to remain with the maternal grandparents in an established home where love and understanding existed than to place the child in a new and migratory atmosphere, with the probability of changes from time to time and under the parental care of those who might be termed strangers to the child. The first was a proved and established fact. The latter was speculative and uncertain. One was permanency; the other perhaps transitory. The decree entered which supports the first mentioned view is sustained, under the principle that the best interests of the child is the paramount issue in a cause as here. Robinson v. Wampler, Tex.Civ.App., 202 S.W.2d 500 , and authorities there cited; Fleming v. Honeycutt, Tex.Civ.App., 205 S.W.2d 137 ; Oldfield v. Lester, Tex.Civ.App., 188 S.W.2d 722 ; DeWitt v. Brooks, 143 Tex. 122 , 182 S.W.2d 687 ; Articles 2330, 2335, Vernon’s Tex.Ann.Civ.St.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reid v. Horton