Wallace v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2014
15 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 Arceneaux v. Domingue · Fulco v. Fulco · 390 So. 2d 1325 - Bordelon v. Bordelon · 383 So. 2d 1231 - Cleeton v. Cleeton · Tiffee v. Tiffee
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial court is vested with a vast amount of discretion in deciding child custody cases. Bagents v. Bagents, 419 So.2d 460 (La.1982). The procedure for appellate review is to give great weight to the determination of the trial judge and to disturb a finding only where there is a clear abuse of discretion. Bordelon v. Bordelon [ 390 So.2d 1325 (La.1980)] supra; Wallace v. Wallace [ 420 So.2d 1326 (La.App. 3rd Cir.1982) ] supra.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ferry v. Ferry“The separation of children of a family though sometimes necessary, is a custodial disposition that courts seek to avoid. Normally, the welfare of children is best served by leaving them together, so they can have the full benefit of companionship and affection. Wfien feasible, a court should shape its orders to maintain family solidarity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No preference shall be given on the basis of the sex of the parent in cases where custody is awarded to only one parent.”
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.