Ball v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 617 So. 2d 880 - Stobart v. State Through DOTD · Juneau v. Laborde · McCarroll v. McCarroll · 632 So. 2d 1200 - McConathy v. McConathy · Trahan v. Allstate Insurance 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he allocation of court costs among the parties is a matter which is subject to the discretion of the trial court, La.C.C.P. art. 1920, and its allocation of those costs will not be disturbed absent evidence of an abuse of that discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pelafigue v. Sudduth
How this case has been treated — in progress
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