MacDonald v. MacDonald’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(d) After a hearing, on the motion of one or both of the joint managing conservators or on the court’s own motion, a court may replace a joint managing conservatorship with a sole managing conservatorship if: (1) .... (C) the circumstances of the child or of one or both of the joint managing conservators have so materially and substantially changed since the rendition of the decree that it has become unworkable or inappropriate under existing circumstances; and (2) the appointment of a sole managing conservator would be a positive improvement for and in the best interest of the child.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In the Interest of Moss