Koether v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[s]ection 11.06(j) [now section 155.207] indicates on its face that the legislature specifically contemplated the wisdom and necessity of such a transfer ... when custody of a couple's children is divided between the mother and father and one parent moves to another county with the children of whom that parent is managing conservator.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Yancey · In Re TJL

2. “[t]he clerk of the transferring court shall keep a copy of the transferred files. If the transferring court retains jurisdiction of another child who was the subject of the suit, the clerk shall send a copy of the complete files to the court to which the transfer is made and shall keep the original files.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re TJL

3. “The statute does not require that all the children who have been subject to a court of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction in a particular case must live in the county to which a transfer is being sought.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Yancey