605 So. 2d 708 - Sheppard v. Hood’s Empirical Analysis

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11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... [A] parent seeking custody of a child awarded to a non-parent by an earlier considered decree bears the heavy burden of proving that the continuation of the present custody is so deleterious to the child as to justify a modification of the custody or of proving by clear and convincing evidence that the harm likely to be caused by a change of environment is substantially outweighed by the advantages a change affords to the child. Sheppard v. Hood, 605 So.2d 708, 712 (La.App. 2d Cir.1992).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 764 So. 2d 1177 - Bragg v. Horne

2. “rationale underlying the Bergeron rule, the desirability that there be an end to litigation where a party has previously had a full and fair opportunity to litigate and the undesirability of changing the child's established mode of living except for imperative reasons, are not limited to a parent versus parent custody dispute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 640 So. 2d 368 - Millet v. Andrasko