824 So. 2d 438 - Weaver v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2015
15 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 Fulco v. Fulco · Hawthorne v. Hawthorne · State ex rel. Williams v. State · Watermeier v. Watermeier · Watermeier v. Watermeier
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Watermeier , the fifth circuit held that a trial court's in-chambers questioning of a child witness must be recorded by the court reporter. We cited this principal with approval in Dykes v. Dykes, 488 So.2d 368 (La.App. 3 Cir.), writ denied, 489 So.2d 1278 (La.1986), and Hicks v. Hicks, 98-1527 (La.App. 3 Cir. 5/1"9), 733 So.2d 1261 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he reasonable preference of the child, if the court deems the child to be of sufficient age to express a preference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“we note that the law in this circuit requires that an `in chambers' interview of a child in a child custody case ` must be conducted with a reporter present and a record made of the questioning by the court and the answers of the witnesses'.”
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.