Sullivan v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Although petitioner had a significant connection with New York State at the time this proceeding was commenced, there is no evidence that the child had any connection with New York State other than a brief six-week residence prior to the commencement of the action as she had lived in New Hampshire since she was born. Further, although substantial evidence may exist in New York State concerning the child’s future care if custody is given to petitioner, a finding that the instant factual situation is sufficient to establish jurisdiction ... approximates the predicating of jurisdiction on the mere presence in this State of the child and a parent, a finding which is expressly prohibited.... As the record demonstrates that only petitioner had a significant connection with New York in the past, that the child had had no such significant connection, that only evidence of the future care of the child if placed in petitioner’s care was available in New York, and that evidence of the child’s past care by both parents and future care if placed with respondent is available outside New York, the best interests of the child do not authorize jurisdiction in New York. Rather, New Hampshire was the ‘home state’ of the child ... and substantial evidence of both parents’ fitness and the child’s care exists in New Hampshire...””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Grayson v. Grayson