Staggs v. Sparks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In determining whose custody of infant child is best for child’s welfare, affection between child and persons having custody thereof, opportunities of disputants to furnish and provide child with necessities of life and facilities for obtaining education, both literary and religious, associations tending to child’s proper development after reaching maturity, including association with playmates of like age, and other considerations tending to establish better environments, whereby child’s better nature may be cultivated and developed into character of usefulness and benefit to community, must be considered.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vanover v. Hunley