In Re Vogel’s Empirical Analysis

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18 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he court may grant a grandparent or other person deemed by the court to have had substantial past contact with the child leave to intervene in a pending suit filed by a person authorized to do so under this subchapter if there is satisfactory proof to the court that appointment of a parent as a sole managing conservator or both parents as joint managing conservators would significantly impair the child’s physical health or emotional development.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. in the Interest of J.A.T., a Minor Child · in the Interest of S.M.D., a Child

2. “Given these facts, we conclude that the trial court reasonably could have found that [the child’s] present circumstances ... would significantly impair his physical health or emotional development.’’). . The following courts have applied a scope of review deferential to the trial court’s fact-finding to analyze standing under section 102.004(a): the First, Third, Fourth, Sixth, and Seventh Courts of Appeals. See, e.g., Compton, 2014 WL 576175, at (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. in the Interest of K.D.H., a Child

3. “A trial court has no discretion in determining what the law is or properly applying the law. If the trial court fails to properly interpret the law or applies the law incorrectly, it abuses its discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Cervantes