8 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 175 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Farley v. Farley.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Farley v. Farley Anchor | green | “in matters of custody, visitation, and related child care issues, the court's paramount concern is always the best interests of the child.” | 61 |
| 2 | Brown v. Brown | green | “as long as evidence in the record supports the trial court's ruling and the trial court has not abused its discretion, its ruling must be affirmed on appeal.” | 57 |
| 3 | Sargent v. Sargent | green | “is not required to quantify or elaborate exactly what weight or consideration it has given to each of the statutory factors.” | 14 |
| 4 | Shackelford v. Shackelford | green | “we defer to the trial court's evaluation of the credibility of the witnesses who testify ore tenus.” | 11 |
| 5 | Sargent v. Sargent | green | “quantify or elaborate exactly what weight or consideration it has given to each of the statutory factors.” | 10 |
| 6 | Sargent v. Sargent | green | “it is not 'required to quantify or elaborate exactly what weight or consideration it has given to each of the statutory factors.” | 10 |
| 7 | Ryan Bedell v. Christina Price and Walter Ryan Matzuk | green | “where the record contains credible evidence in support of the findings made by the court, we may not retry the facts or substitute our view of the facts for that of the trial court.” | 7 |
| 8 | Vissicchio v. Vissicchio | green | “a trial court's determination of a child's best interests 'is reversible on appeal only for an abuse of that discretion, and a trial court's decision will not be set aside unless plainly wrong or without evidence to support it.” | 5 |
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