DeLee v. Koss’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 2010
3 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 401 So. 2d 1221 - Cata v. McKnight
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Sjhould a Louisiana court attempt to decide these issues, it could be deprived of much of the relevant evidence, particularly that favorable to the father. The court deprived of such evidence would be exposed to an extraordinary risk of an erroneous determination. What could be more detrimental to a child than to be erroneously deprived of contact with its father or erroneously continued in exposure to an abusive or neglectful father?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hagedorn v. Hagedorn
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.