Didier v. Didier’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2016
11 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 Williams v. State of North Carolina · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Sherrer v. Sherrer · Johnson v. Muelberger · Coe v. Coe
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Assuming arguendo the points raised by appellant (plaintiff-wife), namely: that throughout the Arkansas proceedings ap-pellee (defendant-husband) was employed by the State of Louisiana, maintained his domicile in Louisiana and only went to Arkansas for several weekends, we are confronted with certain indisputable facts which show beyond any doubt that the proceedings conducted in Arkansas were truly adversary in nature. Under the above enumerated facts we are of the opinion that appellant (plaintiff-wife) by her participation in the Arkansas proceedings availed herself of the opportunity to contest the jurisdiction of that court. Rightly or wrongly, that court decided that it did have jurisdiction, i. e., that appellee (defendant-husband) fulfilled the residency requirements. Appellant (plaintiff-wife) does not allege any facts which would show that she would be entitled to attack the Arkansas judgment in the Arkansas court. Accordingly, Louisiana is bound to give full faith and credit to the Arkansas decree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hudman v. Hudman““Now as to the issue at hand, we construe Boudreaux v. Welch, supra, to stand for the proposition that where there is a waiver of summons, an appearance, and the joining of issue the jurisdictional question is foreclosed as res judicata. Further, that a Louisiana court must give full faith and credit to a judgment of a sister state where that decree is unassailable in the courts of the rendering state. In substance, if the decree cannot be attacked collaterally in the initial court it cannot be attacked in the court of this state. The burden of proving that the original judgment of divorce may be collaterally attacked rests, of course, with the person seeking to deny it full faith and credit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hudman v. Hudman
How this case has been treated — in progress
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