Love v. Love’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) age, health, and sex of the child; (2) a determination of the parent that has had the continuity of care prior to the separation; (3) which has the best parenting skills and which has the willingness and capacity to provide primary child care; (4) the employment of the parent and responsibilities of that employment; (5) physical and mental health and age of the parents; (6) emotional ties of parent and child; (7) moral fitness of the parents; (8) the home, school and community record of the child; (9) the preference of the child at the age sufficient to express a preference by law; 5 (10)stability of home environment and employment of each parent and other factors relevant to the parent-child relationship.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 99 So. 3d 830 - O'Briant v. O'Briant

2. “[W]e may not always agree with a chancellor’s decision as to whether the best interests] of a child have been met, especially when we must review that decision by reading volumes of docu ments rather than through personal interaction with the parties before us. However, in custody cases, we are bound by the limits of our standard of review and may reverse only when the decision of the trial court was manifestly wrong [or] clearly erroneous, or an erroneous legal standard was employed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. N.B. v. Berryman