Broussard v. Broussard’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 694 So. 2d 578 - Welborne v. Welborne (1997), 756 So. 2d 698 - Thomey v. Thomey (2000)
29 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 488 So. 2d 1147 - Key v. Willard · First National Bank of Crowley v. Green Garden Processing Co. · 371 So. 2d 1304 - Meyer v. Meyer · 513 So. 2d 383 - Ecklund v. Ecklund
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. An order for child support or alimony shall be retroactive to the filing date of the petition for child support or alimony granted in the order. * * * * * * C. In the event the court finds good cause for not making the award retroactive, the court may fix the date such award shall become due.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“Additionally, the evidence in the record indicates that continuances for the hearing on child support were requested by counsel for both parties. For these reasons, we find that the trial court was correct in making the child support award retroactive to the filing date of the petition seeking same, April 28, 1988. ATTORNEY'S REMARKS Defendant claims that the trial court improperly considered”
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.