Lang v. Lang’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[a]t the time of the trial, the mother was engaged to a man she had known all of her life. There was no evidence indicating that the mother’s fiancé had engaged in improper or illegal conduct. There was no evidence indicating that the mother was using illegal drugs at the time of the trial. The mother’s flan-eé had already purchased a house large enough to accommodate all three of the mother’s children. The mother held a full-time job and had returned to school to become a registered nurse. The psychologist who had examined the two older children found them both to be healthy and well adjusted. It is true that the older children were upset with the mother’s relationship at the root of this case; however, the psychologist also found that the older child was upset with the father, too, because of her belief that his affair with a family friend had caused the breakup of the parties’ marriage.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 72 So. 3d 1244 - Tina Lang v. Michael Lang.