Yaman v. Yaman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It would have been a simple matter, if the state parties to the Convention wished to take account of the possibility that an abducting parent might make it difficult for the petitioning parent to discover the child's whereabouts, to run the period 'from the date that the petitioning parent learned [or, could reasonably have learned] of the child's whereabouts'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lozano v. Montoya Alvarez · 134 S. Ct. 1224 - Lozano v. Montoya Alvarez

2. “If the alleged wrongdoer concealed the child's whereabouts from the custodian necessitating a long search for the child and thereby delayed the commencement of a return proceeding by the applicant, it is highly questionable whether the respondent should be permitted to benefit from such conduct absent strong countervailing considerations”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Lozano v. Montoya Alvarez · 134 S. Ct. 1224 - Lozano v. Montoya Alvarez

3. “consider the abducting parent's misconduct, together with any other relevant circumstances, such as whether return would not be harmful or disruptive even though the child has become settled, in deciding whether to order [his] return.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Ferreira da Costa v. Albefaro de Lima · Rodrigues da Silva v. Silveira da Silva