552 So. 2d 576 - McGee v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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

1. “, he bears the heavy burden of proving that the continuation of present custody is so deleterious to the child as to justify a modification of the custody decree, or of proving by clear and convincing evidence that the harm likely to be caused by a change of environment is substantially outweighed by its advantages to the child. Bergeron v. Bergeron, 492 So.2d 1193 (La.1986). When no evidence is adduced at the district court level prior to the entry of the joint custody order which is sought to be modified, that joint custody decree is not a”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Newcomb v. Newcomb · Franklin v. Franklin

2. “burden of proof required by Bergeron is not applicable. Accordingly, the appellant was required to prove only that there had been a material change in circumstances since the entry of the original decree and that the modification which he proposed was in the best interest of the child. The district court concluded that it was in the best interest of the child to leave him in Mrs. Brewster's domiciliary custody, despite that it found her to have”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 587 So. 2d 116 - Pulley v. Pulley