Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We conclude that the trial court exceeded its discretion in holding the former husband in contempt because there was no evidence to support the trial court’s finding that the former husband ‘willfully and intentionally failed and refused to ... pay [periodic] alimony as ordered.’ Instead, the evidence at the final hearing indicated that the former husband, following the clear direction given by this court in Sanders , began making periodic-alimony payments into an escrow account after filing a petition to modify the former wife’s award of periodic alimony based, in part, on the former husband’s good-faith belief that the former wife was committing the acts contemplated in § 30-2-55. Therefore, that part of the trial court’s February 4, 2009, judgment holding the former husband in contempt is reversed. On remand, the trial court is ordered to vacate that portion of its February 4, 2009, judgment holding the former husband in contempt.””

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