Wyman v. Larner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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.

1. “Federal courts have jurisdiction under the PKPA ... to determine which of two inconsistent state court custody decrees is valid”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. David A. Thompson v. Susan A. Thompson, AKA Susan A. Clay · Thompson v. A Thompson a

2. “A child custody determination made by a court of a State is consistent with the provisions of this section only if — (1) such court has jurisdiction under the law of such State; and (2) one of the following conditions is met: (A) Such State (i) is the home State of the child on the date of the commencement of the proceeding, or (ii) had been the child’s home State within six months before the date of the commencement of the proceeding and the child is absent from such State because of his removal or retention by a contestant or for other reasons, and a contestant continues to live in such State;”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 670 F. Supp. 774 - Shores v. Shores