Willis v. Levesque’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2011
23 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 370 So. 2d 308 - Percer v. Percer · Knight v. Sager
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The order of support in a case of reciprocal support does not in any manner `supersede,' overcome or replace an order of child support in a divorce case — that is exactly what the statute says. However, the order in such a case is cumulative; that also is provided by statute. Section 30-4-98 provides: `The remedies provided in this article are in addition to and *Page 115 not in substitution for any other remedies.'"”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the right to support of a child from its parents is inherent and cannot be waived by the parents even by agreement.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`The waiver of rights of visitation in exchange for release from the duty of child support is a legal impossibility.'”
2 later decisions 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.