McCrary v. McCrary’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
December 1988
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on English v. English · MacDonald v. MacDonald · Mitchell v. Mitchell · 2 Utah 2d 423 - Madsen v. Madsen · Hendricks v. Hendricks
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party seeking reversal of the trial court must prove a misunderstanding or misapplication of the law resulting in substantial and prejudicial error, or that the evidence clearly preponderated against the findings, or that such a serious inequity resulted from the order as to constitute an abuse of the trial court’s discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colman v. Colman
How this case has been treated — in progress
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