Lee v. George’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. “This injury is no different from the result in every custody case in which a parent does not get what he or she requested. While the Court recognizes Appellant’s desire to spend more time with his children and to have more control over important decisions about their lives, his claimed injuries are simply not the kind of injuries that justify issuing an extraordinary writ. Indeed, if they were, the appellate courts would be awash with writ petitions in domestic cases. Yet, as we have noted time and again, the extraordinary writs are no substitute for the ordinary appellate process, and the interference with the lower courts required by such a remedy is to be avoided whenever possible.”

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

2. “In the context of the extraordinary writs, 'jurisdiction' refers not to mere legal errors but to subject-matter jurisdiction ... which goes to the court's core authority to even hear cases.”

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