657 So. 2d 171 - Ray v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2016
9 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 Meadors v. Pacific Intern. Petroleum, Inc. · 502 So. 2d 583 - Gordy v. Langner · State ex rel. Fournette v. Blackburn · Lachney v. Lachney · 640 So. 2d 537 - Noe v. Noe
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hrough [La.Civ. Code art. 136], the law provides a means of maintaining family relationships where they might otherwise be lost to the child.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“With that being the case, there is no need to consider the five factors enumerated in La.Civ.Code art. 136. Accordingly, the narrow question before us is whether the grandparent visitation granted by the trial court was”
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.