Ingles v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Upon the death of the parent into whose custody children are placed by a decree of divorce, the children stand, with relation to the surviving parent and all the world as if no divorce had been entered.” Turley, 638 P.2d at 470 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. S.W. v. Duncan · Ward v. Ward

2. ““This Court has repeatedly held that to deprive a parent of the custody of his children in favor of a third person, the parent must be affirmatively, not comparatively, shown to be unfit. The mere fact that a child may be better cared for by a third person is not sufficient to justify taking a child from its parent. In order for third persons to deprive a parent of custody of his children, some inability on the part of the parent to provide for the child’s ordinary comfort, intellectual or moral development must be shown. Evidence of unfitness must be clear and conclusive and the necessity for depriving the parent of custody must be shown to be imperative.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In the Matter of the Guard. of B.J.W.

3. “It is error in any action to grant custody to grandparents over the protest of the natural father, where evidence does not clearly establish the unfitness of the father to have custody of his children at the time of the hearing. (Emphasis added. Footnote omitted.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Weber v. Linch