Lucas v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1982
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Finlay v. Finlay · Decker v. Landry · Wilmot v. Wilmot · State v. Quintana Petroleum Co. · Wicks v. Cox
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Art. 10 Jurisdiction over status "A. A court which is otherwise competent under the laws of this state has jurisdiction of the following actions or proceedings only under the following conditions: * * * * * * "(5) A proceeding to obtain the legal custody of a minor if he is domiciled in, or is in, this state; * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"However, a majority of this court is now of the opinion that the Caddo Parish court, which rendered the original custody decree in the divorce proceedings, did not retain forever the exclusive jurisdiction and venue to modify that decree. This question is res nova in Louisiana." (Emphasis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“doctrine, recognized under our law and jurisprudence. As a general rule, the court where the child is domiciled or is physically present is best qualified to determine, and most concerned with, the best interest of the child. This is basically the rationale of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. Gilbert
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.