Ryg v. Kerkow’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * [AJlthough we have indicated that normally, other things being equal, the interests of young children are better served by placing them in their mother’s custody rather than their father’s custody, the paramount and overriding consideration must be the welfare of the children. Reiland v. Reiland, 290 Minn. 497 , 185 N. W. 2d 879 (1971); Hanson v. Hanson, 284 Minn. 321 , 170 N. W. 2d 213 (1969); Lindberg v. Lindberg, 282 Minn. 536 , 163 N. W. 2d 870 (1969); Fish v. Fish, 280 Minn. 316 , 159 N. W. 2d 271 (1968). See, also, Minn. St. 518.17, which provides in part that the trial court ‘shall consider all facts in the best interest of the children and shall not prefer one parent over the other solely on the basis of the sex of the parent.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Erickson v. Erickson