Tompkins v. Tompkins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'[w]hen a trial court does not make specific findings of fact concerning an issue , an appellate court will assume that the trial court made those findings necessary to support its judgment, unless such findings would be clearly erroneous.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kelly v. Kelly · Ramsey v. Ramsey

2. “Under the ore tenus rule, the trial court's judgment is presumed correct and this court will not reverse the judgment absent a showing that the trial court's findings are plainly and palpably wrong or that the trial court abused its discretion.”

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

3. “`[T]his court is not permitted to reweigh the evidence on appeal or to substitute its judgment for that of the trial court.'”

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