854 So. 2d 262 - Cooper v. Gress’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) that the circumstances have substantially and materially changed since the original custody determination, and (2) that the child's best interests justify changing custody.”

   11 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dmg v. Gem · Martinez v. Kurt

2. “The existence of the presumption against rotating custody in an initial custody determination, or the fact that a trial judge disapproves of rotating-custody arrangements in general, cannot be allowed to undermine the long-established requirement that the party seeking to modify custody satisfy the extraordinary burden set forth in the two-part test. To hold otherwise would render any rotating-custody scheme in a final judgment inherently unstable.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 924 So. 2d 952 - Bazan v. Gambone · 954 So. 2d 698 - Ogilvie v. Ogilvie

3. “alleging a substantial change of circumstances, but found that the allegations raised were insufficient as a matter of law to satisfy the”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dmg v. Gem · 924 So. 2d 952 - Bazan v. Gambone