Jensen v. Jensen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) she had physical custody of three of the four surviving children; (2) the three children had established social and educational ties in her community; (3) she had remarried, obtained part-time employment, and was financially secure; (4) the child remaining with defendant was unhappy and lacked parental supervision; (5) defendant had failed to arrange visitation with the three children in her physical custody; (6) defendant had failed to assist her financially with the support of the children; and (7) defendant had attempted to use the children as a “coercive device to extract concessions from [her]-in order to benefit himself.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thorpe v. Jensen