Ross v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

36 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * * Thg jurisdiction of the divorce court is exercised as between the husband and the wife; that of the juvenile court [in dependency proceedings], ‘as between the state, or, so to speak, the child, and the parents of the child.’ State v. McCloskey, 136 La. 739 , 67 So. 813 . The two courts may have' simultaneous, though not concurrent, jurisdiction concerning the custody of the child. Id. But where both courts have made orders concerning such custody, the operation of the order of the divorce court is suspended during the period, and only during the period, that the order of the juvenile court remains in force. “In the present case the institution of the dependency proceeding in the juvenile court did not deprive the district court of jurisdiction to hear and determine the father’s petition. We cannot sustain the contention of counsel for the mother that the district court had no jurisdiction to modify its decree so as to award to the grandparents the custody of Joan.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johnson v. Black · In re the Marriage of Eckman

2. ““Courts are disposed — properly so — to award to the mother, until otherwise ordered, the custody of very young children, especially girls, even where the mother’s conduct has been such that, if the child were older, its custody would have been placed elsewhere. Conduct of the mother that would have no detrimental effect upon a child so young that its powers of observation and imitation are close to the minimum might be considered by the court sufficient cause to take from the mother the custody of a child somewhat older. Much depends upon the nature of the mother’s conduct and the age and intelligence of the child.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Grimditch v. Grimditch · Curran v. Curran

3. “that the disposition of the custody of children in any divorce case shall not be held to interfere with the jurisdiction of the juvenile court in cases concerning the dependency of such children under the laws of this state concerning dependent children.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People Ex Rel. Lucke v. County Court