Orr v. Orr

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• welfare of child is paramount concern; opposing desires of hostile parents, insofar as they conflict with well-being of child, must yield
• welfare of child is paramount concern; opposing desires of hostile parents, insofar as they conflict with well-being of child, must yield
• “an issue will not be regarded as moot, although the passage of time has rendered some aspects of the controversy academic, if substantial rights and liabilities of the parties are affected by the order from which the appeal is taken”
• “The power of contempt is, in the main, discretionary.”
• “The power of contempt is, in the main, discretionary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cabot v. Cabot
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1997-05-23· cited 125×
• Spabile v. Hunt
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1976-06-01· cited 32×
• Brooks v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1973-02-06· cited 27×
• State v. Stell
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2007-09-21· cited 25×
• Ohland v. Ohland
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1982-02-04· cited 23×
• Obolensky v. Trombley
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2015-02-06· cited 20×
• Annie D. Winter v. Stephen Bradford Crowley, Jr.
  D.C. Circuit· 1967-02-08· cited 12×
• In re C.C.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1988-05-27· cited 4×
• Thompson v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2000-08-22· cited 4×
• Boone v. Boone
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1976-02-03· cited 1×
• Condit v. Condit
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1980-02-28· cited 1×
• In Re CC
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1988-05-27
• State of Vermont v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
  Vermont Superior Court· 2010-03-10

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McKinney v. McKinney Kelley
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1958-03-05· cited 27×
• Bradley v. Blandin
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1920-05-08· cited 27×
• Loeb v. Loeb
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1958-09-02· cited 25×
• Leonard & Leonard v. Earle
  Supreme Court· 1929-05-13· cited 20×
• Raymond v. Raymond
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1957-05-07· cited 20×
• Miles v. Farnsworth
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1960-05-03· cited 20×
• Deyette v. Deyette
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1918-04-12· cited 18×
• Cutting v. Cutting
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1928-11-16· cited 4×