Meyers v. Meyers’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Appellant complains of the trial court’s considering a report of the State Department of Welfare in determining the custody issue herein presented, which report was not made available to Appellant and which does not constitute part of the record herein. Our courts have, on prior occasions, held such reports inadmissible as hearsay in custody proceedings when proper and timely objection is made thereto. See Murray v. Murray, La.App., 220 So.2d 790 ; LeBlanc v. LeBlanc, La.App., 194 So.2d 122 ; Lyckburg v. Lyckburg, La. App., 140 So.2d 487 . However, in this instance, the trial court made it clear that it would request and consider such a report prior to making its decision in this instance, and Appellant made no objection thereto. A litigant may not initially complain on appeal of an alleged trial court error in the absence of an objection thereto at trial level.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schufford v. Masters