Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Ordinarily, a parent’s right to the custody of his minor child cannot be cut off except after due notice to the parent and opportunity to be heard. To do so would be to deprive him of his legal rights without due process of law. Due process, however, does not in every case require that the determination of the parent’s right to the custody of his child must precede any interference therewith. The child may be taken away from his custody provisionally by a summary proceeding, so long as an adequate remedy is available by which the parent may afterward have his rights presented to a proper tribunal. * * * ’ 39 Am.Jur. 604, § 17.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. M.S. v. State Department of Human Resources

2. “where it appears the actual health and physical well-being of the child are in danger, the court has authority under Ex parte White, supra , to make a temporary grant of custody until a final determination can be made.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 911 So. 2d 719 - Ex Parte Russell