458 So. 2d 662 - Long v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2007
8 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 455 So. 2d 1374 - Turner v. Turner · 445 So. 2d 35 - Turner v. Turner
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Turner the Supreme Court said: ‘The Legislature ... established the rebuttable presumption that joint custody arrangements would be in the child’s best interest. C.C. 146(C). This presumption has caused some confusion. Some lower courts seem to believe that the article' requires granting joint custody. Such is not the case; the article clearly provides that there is only a presumption in favor of joint custody, and that it may be rebutted upon a proper showing that a different arrangement is in the child’s best interest....’ The court explained that once a party seeking to attain or retain sole custody shows that custody in one parent is in the best interest of the child, the presumption is destroyed. The court also said that trial courts do not complete their judicial function by simply resting on the legislative presumption to solve the case, but must become active participants in the case, and pursue actively that course of conduct which will be of the greatest benefit to the child.” Long v. Long, 458 So.2d 662 at page 663 (La.App. 3rd Cir.1984).”
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.