State Ex Rel. Theriot v. Pulling’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1984
24 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 Ex parte Lincoln · State Ex Rel. Perdue v. Carkuff · Davis v. Willis · State Ex Rel. Harris v. McCall · State Ex Rel. Landry v. Robin
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is also well settled that a reasonable latitude must be left to the trial judge in determining matters affecting the welfare of children and his judgment, based upon the facts disclosed in any given case, is entitled to great weight. State [ex rel. Landry] v. Robin, 193 La. 789 , 192 So. 349 .’ State ex rel. Johnson v. Ashmore, 197 La. 971 , 2 So.2d 897, 898 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“unless there should be strong reasons to deprive her of it, either in whole or in part, the decision whereof is left to the discretion of the judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.