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759 So. 2d 1079 - State v. Baxter’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
March 2008
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 702 So. 2d 781 - Falterman v. Falterman · Hector v. Raymond · Hector v. Raymond. · 671 So. 2d 444 - Colvin v. Colvin · Aguilar v. Wilson

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.

  1. “• the circumstances of the parents; • the child’s best interest; • the parent’s ability to pay; and • the lifestyle that the child otherwise would have enjoyed had the parents not separated in the first place.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Moreover, it is well entrenched in Louisiana jurisprudence that children living with the mother are entitled to the same standard of living as if they resided with their father whenever the financial circumstances of the father permit.”
    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.