Pope v. Pope’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1997
15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 26 N.J. Super. 90 - Boerger v. Boerger · Montgomery v. Montgomery · Luethans v. Luethans · Watkins v. Watkins
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Conceivably a parental dispute over religion might be waged in such a manner as to create in the mind of the innocent victim a deep-seated religious conflict which eventually would affect, or threaten to affect, the child's mental health. . .. But that is not the situation here, so far as this record discloses. Plaintiff gave brief testimony, in seven words, that "There is a conflict in his mind." She did not explain or enlarge on this bare statement except to give her opinion that the question becomes increasingly important as the child grows older. She did not testify to any facts from which it might be inferred that it is a serious conflict, or that his welfare has been adversely affected thereby. She gave no testimony whatever that his general demeanor, attitude, school work, appetite, health or outlook has been affected one iota by the so-called conflict in his mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““and that if in the future, on a motion, subsequently filed, it should appear that appellant has created or fostered a basic religious conflict in the mind of this child, instilled in him a disrespect for or disbelief in the religion of his mother, or erected religious barriers between the mother and son, such conduct would be extremely detrimental to the welfare of the child (citation omitted), and would constitute a sufficient change of condition to support an order modifying the decree in such a manner as to eliminate any such adverse factor”. (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Upon the record presented plaintiff failed to show any change of condition affecting the child's best interest and welfare warranting the modification which was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pulliam v. Sutton
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