Paden v. Paden’s Empirical Analysis

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16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the attributes and characteristics of the parents and children and how the children have fared under the original custody and visitation arrangement, the relocating parent's motives for proposing the move, and whether reasonable visitation is possible for the remaining parent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ianelli v. Camino

2. “must assist the trial judge in articulating on the record the relevant factors and their relative weight which, in the lawyer's professional judgment, should act as a foundation for the trial court's exercise of judicial discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ianelli v. Camino

3. “[w]e consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the district court's decision, 'affording every favorable inference to the prevailing party and omitting from our consideration the conflicting evidence.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ianelli v. Camino