Lopez v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
36
cited by 36 later decisions
6
states following
December 1997
most recently cited
36 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hurley v. Hurley · Fitzgerald v. Fitzgerald · Matter of Valdez · 61 Cal. App. 3d 289 - In Re Marriage of Ciganovich · Schuermann v. Schuermann
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is readily apparent that the respondent's very act of preventing the [minor children] ... from seeing and being with their father is an act so inconsistent with the best interests of the children as to, per se, raise a strong probability that the mother is unfit to act as custodial parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Smith
How this case has been treated — in progress
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