Walker v. Luckey’s Empirical Analysis

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9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Mississippi has enacted the UCCJA (§§ 93-23-1, 93-23-47, Miss. Code Ann. (Supp. 1984)), and it became effective here on July 1, 1982. The act was designed to prevent the very behavior with which we have been confronted here; namely, the "Interstate Child" phenomenon where a custody decree is entered in one state, and a parent removes the child to another state, to have custody modified.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 481 So. 2d 227 - Hill v. Hill

2. “If the UCCJA is to have any teeth at all, we must permit it to work in the manner in which it was intended — to give "Interstate Jeremy," and other children in his situation, some sense of permanence and stability in their homes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Siegel v. Alexander