31 Colo. App. 485 - Bernick v. Bernick’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
6
states following
March 1997
most recently cited
27 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Frazier v. Frazier · Searle v. Searle · 30 Colo. App. 177 - Van Orman v. Van Orman · Anderson v. Anderson · Harrison v. Harrison
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the absence of a clear showing to the contrary, decisions of the custodial parent reasonably made in a good faith attempt to fulfill the responsibility imposed by the award of custody should be presumed to have been made in the best interests of the children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. Love
How this case has been treated — in progress
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