Bishop v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The unfitness which will deprive a mother of the right to the custody of her minor child must be a positive and not merely a comparative unfitness; * * * “It is not sufficient to establish the unfitness of a parent for the custody and control of her minor child to show that she has some faults of character, or bad habits; it must be shown that her condition in life, or her character and habits are such that provision for the child’s ordinary comfort and contentment, or for its intellectual and moral development, cannot be reasonably expected at the parents’ hand.””

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

2. ““The defendant calls our attention to Hovey v. Elliott, 167 U.S. 409 , 17 S.Ct. 841 , 42 L.Ed. 215 , wherein the Supreme Court of the United States , held that to deny one the right to defend when cited for contempt of court for failure to pay alimony or support money in a divorce action constitutes a denial of the due process provision in the United States Constitution.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clampitt v. Johnson