Race v. Race’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. “Although the awarding of visitation and child support is within the court’s discretion, the court must consider the child’s paramount right to and need for his parent’s support. Court-ordered child support is an obligation imposed for the benefit of the children, not the divorcing spouse. We find no circumstances here which justify the trial court in deferring support until visitation between the children and their father could be worked out. In the interim, they needed and were entitled to his support. For these same reasons, a stay of execution imposed by the trial court on a judgment which the plaintiff obtained for delinquent temporary support should be lifted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McReynolds v. McReynolds

2. “[a] primary purpose of written findings of fact is to preserve for the record the reasons for the trial court’s judgment. Without such written findings, nothing exists to show on what evidence the court relied, and review of whether there was clear and convincing evidence of contempt becomes impossible.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hurst