Hector v. Raymond’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2012
13 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 631 So. 2d 1349 - Preis v. Preis · Rosenbloom v. Rosenbloom · Rosenbloom v. Bauchat · 628 So. 2d 1274 - Crefasi v. Crefasi · Krampe v. Krampe
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]er support requirements were based on a situation which did not take into consideration the standard of living that Cody would be entitled to were he to reside with his father. See Hargett, 544 So.2d 705 . We do not find that Cody should be denied the opportunity of a certain lifestyle that would be available to a minor child born to a legal union. We find that an award of $6,000.00 per month is just, legal, and proper based on our review of the record in these proceedings. La.Code Civ.P. art. 2164.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Obviously, the trial court agreed with [appellee] that “the needs of the minor child in this case are less relevant and the ability of the father to pay is more determinative of the appropriate award of child support.” It realized that essentially all of [the child’s] needs were currently being satisfied because it only awarded $2,000.00 a month for his current support but attempted to provide [the child] with an insurance policy for the future due to the obvious instability of NFL employment. While the trial court’s approach is reasonable in fact and while we do not disagree that the length of a professional football player’s career is uncertain at best, there is no certainty in anyone’s life that they will not be disabled and unable to work in the future. Unfortunately, we find no authority in the law for such future planning techniques and choose not to establish a precedent for such decisions in the future. Therefore, we set aside that portion of the trial court’s judgment ordering that $4,000.00 per month be placed in a court-supervised investment account.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This case presents an unusual fact situation____ [The parties] were never married to each other. Thus, [the child] has never enjoyed his father’s standard of living because he has never resided with his father. Although [the mother] is now asking for additional support, she testified that she has been able to supply all of [the child’s] needs with the $1,200.00 she was previously receiving in child support.... She wants the additional award so that she and [the child] can get a place of their own, and she testified that to do so, she would need a total of approximately $2,500.00 to $8,000.00 a month. The amount requested represents two percent or less of [the father’s] current monthly income. The trial court awarded her nearly double the amount that she requested but ordered that two-thirds of the award be placed in trust for the future based on the reasoning that [appellant’s] career with the NFL was extremely speculative and could be cut short at any time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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