DeGroot v. DeGroot’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 12 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. “We have regularly applied intervening statutes conferring or ousting jurisdiction, whether or not jurisdiction lay when the underlying conduct occurred or when the suit was filed.”); DeGroot v. DeGroot, 939 A.2d 664 , 670 n. 5 (D.C.2008) (”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kr v. Cn · K.R. v. C.N.

2. “(b) A tribunal of the District may not exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed before a petition or comparable pleading is filed in another state if: (1) The petition or comparable pleading in the other state is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in the District for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by the District; (2) The contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in the District; and (3) If relevant, the other state is the home state of the child.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Upson v. Wallace

3. “(1) A court of the District determines that neither the child, nor the child and one parent, nor the child and any person acting as a parent have a significant connection with the District and that substantial evidence is no longer available in the District concerning the child’s care, protection, training, and ■personal relationship!;.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ieasha Hipps v. Ruben Cabrera