Ehrlich v. Bloom’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. “[T]he question that the court must first consider on a motion to modify a custody arrangement is whether there “[h]as occurred since the prior custody order a change in circumstances sufficiently substantial in its effect upon the best interests of the children as to justify a modification of the custody arrangement.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jarvis v. Jarvis · Cloutier v. Lear

2. “When [the trial court], acting as a wise and affectionate and careful parent ... concludes after a thorough and careful review of the evidence ... that a custody order is the best arrangement for the child, this court will not overturn it, as long as there is rational support for the decision.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rowland v. Kingman

3. “essential impact of the `clearly erroneous rule' is that the trial judge's findings stand unless they clearly cannot be correct because there is no competent evidence to support them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rodrigue v. Brewer