Commonwealth v. Scott’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. ““(a) If a divorce has been granted by a court of competent jurisdiction, and thereafter the parent of any child under the age of sixteen years shall fail to comply with the orders of the court relative to the maintenance or support of the child as set forth in the judgment granting the divorce, or if the parent having the custody of such child under’the orders of the court shall abandon or desert the child, or if a parent not having the custody of the child shall take qnd carry away the child from the custody of the parent or other person to whom the custody of the child was awarded by the judgment of divorce, or by a subsequent order of the court amending the judgment, without the consent of the parent or other person having custody, the parent so doing shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be confined in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years. “(b) The circuit court in which the divorce was granted, the circuit court of the county where the custodian of the child resided at the time the offense set out. in this subsection was committed, and the circuit court of the county where the child was when the offense was committed, shall each have jurisdiction of the prosecution under this subsection.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth v. O'HARRAH