Robert v. Gaudet’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2016
14 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 492 So. 2d 1193 - Bergeron v. Bergeron · J-O'B Operating Co. v. Newmont Oil Co. · In Re Custody of Landry · 559 So. 2d 990 - Pittman v. Jones · 671 So. 2d 502 - Rupert v. Swinford
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an award of joint custody or of sole custody to either parent would result in substantial harm to the child, the court shall award custody to another person with whom the child has been living in a wholesome and stable environment, or otherwise to any other person able to provide an adequate and stable environment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lovell v. Billiot · Black v. Simms“that joint custody to the mother and father would result in substantial harm to [the child], that sole custody to the mother would result in substantial harm to [the child], and that sole custody to the father would result in substantial harm to [the child].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. Simms
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.