Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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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. “While we deny Ms. Jones’s petition, we are obliged to underscore certain matters contained in this court’s previous decision handed down on November 6, 1996, especially since this court had to take the extraordinary step to enforce its mandate by a subsequent per curiam. That per curiam was necessary because, for whatever reason, the chancery court failed to reinstate the parties’ original custody order. Because we believed that this court’s opinion and instructions were perfectly clear, we issued a simple “forthwith” order directing the chancery court’s compliance. The chancery court then complied. Because of the continuing controversies involving this matter, we reiterate the well-established rule that when this court remands a case to chancery court with directions, the chancery court has no power to enter any decree except that directed, and it has no power to change or extend this court’s mandate. See Ferguson v. Green, 266 Ark. 556 , 587 S.W.2d 18 (1979). In this same vein, we remind the parties that, in the appeal decided November 4, 1996, this court conducted a de novo review of the chancellor’s custody decision, and in doing so, the court specifically stated that child custody is determined by what is in the “best interests” of the child, and it is not altered absent a material change in circumstances. In deciding the child custody issue, this court reviewed in lengthy detail the evidence offered at trial, including Ms. Jones’s move to Little Rock, Dr. Jones’s remarr”

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