Corrie v. Corrie’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““No other occasion can call more loudly for judicial vigilance in reaching for the exact truth, and in putting aside with an unsparing hand the mere technicalities of procedure. “The fate or interest of the child is not to depend on what the parties may see proper to state or to evade in their formal altercations, nor on any artificial rule of pleading. There should be full inquiry and an exhaustive examination on oath in order that the tribunal may have all the light practicable.” '”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wacker v. Wacker

2. ““In contests of this kind the opinion is now nearly universal that neither of the parties has any rights that can be allowed to seriously militate against the welfare of the child. The paramount consideration is what is really demanded by its best interests.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Greene v. Walker

3. ““If a consideration of evidence is required, we suppose the proper way to be to take a habeas corpus from this-Court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Sneden