Rivers v. Rivers’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2009
6 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 Wollman v. GRAVAL · 316 So. 2d 202 - Whitt v. Vauthier · Rodriguez v. Rodriguez · Elchinger v. Elchinger · 311 So. 2d 578 - Theriot v. Melancon
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. When a payment of support under a judgment is in arrears, the party entitled thereto may proceed by contradictory motion to have the amount of past due support determined and made executory. On the trial of the contradictory motion, the court shall render judgment for the amount of past due support.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The provisions of Article 3945 [now 3946] do not give any discretion to the trial court when it is proved that payments are in arrears. The courts are not empowered by equity or otherwise to nullify or reduce accumulated alimony until a previous judgment awarding alimony has been amended or reduced by subsequent judgment or terminated by operation of law.”
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.