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← 729 SO2D 757 - Westcott v. Westcott

Westcott v. Westcott’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
November 2000
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Norred v. Norred · 591 So. 2d 396 - Norred v. Norred · McDaniel v. McDaniel

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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he party without legal custody or the nondomiciliary party shall owe his or her total child support obligation as a money judgment of child support to the custodial or domiciliary party, minus any court-ordered direct payments made on behalf of the child for health insurance premiums.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “When determining child support awards, Louisiana courts have interpreted [La. R.S. 9:315.4] to provide a credit for health insurance premiums paid on behalf of a minor child.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[t]he cost of health insurance premiums incurred on behalf of the child shall be added to the basic child support obligation.”
    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.