Mott v. Mott’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. “‘‘The chief question is the custody of the child. Prima facie the mother is entitled to the custody of the young child. 3 Comp. Laws 1915, § 11484 (3 Comp. Laws 1929, §12582 [Stat. Ann. §25.311]); Weiss v. Weiss, 174 Mich. 431 . But this rule does not interfere ‘with the right of a court of competent jurisdiction, upon investigation and upon consideration of the best interests of a minor child, to commit said child to the custody of either the father, the mother, or of some other suitable person,’ quoting from In re Knott, 162 Mich. 10 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Ritter