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← 36 Ark. App. 197 - McLain v. McLain

36 Ark. App. 197 - McLain v. McLain’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
April 2003
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 23 Ark. App. 203 - Lofton v. Lofton · Canady v. Canady · 30 Ark. App. 272 - First National Bank of Roland v. Rush · 34 Ark. App. 247 - Bradford v. Bradford · 35 Ark. App. 89 - Dunn v. Dunn

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

  1. “Clear and convincing evidence is evidence by a credible witness whose memory of the facts about which he testifies is distinct, whose narration of the details is exact and in due order, and whose testimony is so direct, weighty, and convincing as to enable the fact finder to come to a clear conviction, without hesitation, of the truth of the facts related. (Citation omitted.)”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.