Edwards v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In view of the award of the little girl to the mother, it cannot be assumed the court considered her as laboring under any disqualification to properly discharge her duty to the boy. If ■the mother was a fit person to care for her daughter, she was by the same token a fit person to care for and rear her son. The trial court seems to have attached some importance to the tender age of the little girl in awarding her custody to the mother. Upon the date of the trial the girl lacked only a few days of being three years old; the boy was only fifteen months older. We can see no reason why this slight difference in the ages of the children should have had'bearing upon the issue. Furthermore, upon an examination of the whole evidence we are convinced that it does ‘not establish with that certainty which the courts must require that the interest of the child, or of society itself, demands that he should be taken from his mother and continued in the possession of another.’ “It will serve no good purpose to state the evidence disclosed by the record. It is .sufficient to say that in the opinion of this court, after full and mature consideration of the same, it fails to show that this mother is disqualified or incompetent to properly discharge her full duty to her son, as well as her daughter; that it is to the best interest of the son that he receive the care and affection which only a mother can give him, and which his mother is fighting to bestow upon him. “The judgment decreeing the”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edwards v. Edwards