722 So. 2d 125 - Fowler v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2017
7 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 · 502 So. 2d 583 - Gordy v. Langner · State in Interest of Sylvester · State ex rel. Fournette v. Blackburn · 643 So. 2d 419 - Tatum v. Old Republic Ins. Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court's determination in child custody matters is entitled to "a great deal of discretion" because the trial judge has a "superior opportunity to observe the persons claiming custody and the witnesses who testified at the trial." State in the Interest of Two Minor Children, 499 So.2d 697, 700 (La. App. 3 Cir.1986) (citations omitted). "The trial judge is in a better position to evaluate the best interest of a child ... and his decision will not be disturbed on review absent a clear showing of abuse." State in the Interest of Sylvester, 525 So.2d 604, 608 (La.App. 3 Cir.1988) (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]t a subsequent hearing to change custody brought by the natural parent previously deemed unfit, the burden of proof should rest on that natural parent to demonstrate that he or she had rehabilitated and that facts which gave rise to him or her being deprived of custody at the initial hearing no longer exist.”
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.