849 So. 2d 707 - Bickham v. Bickham’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2013
10 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 774 So. 2d 84 - Davis v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. · State v. Ballard · Thompson v. Courville · 390 So. 2d 1365 - Marshall v. Marshall · Dragon v. Schultz
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to obtain interest on an award, a litigant must pray for interest unless interest is allowed by law. Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure article 1921 provides: "Interest in the judgment shall be awarded as prayed for or as allowed by law." The "as allowed by law" language has been frequently interpreted to refer to judicial interest in tort cases. See LSA-R.S. 13:4203.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Interim spousal support terminates not upon the rendition of the judgment of divorce, but upon the rendition of a judgment awarding or denying final spousal support or one hundred eighty days from the rendition of the judgment of divorce, whichever comes first.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Speight v. Speight“[s]ince the word `shall' in statute providing that the court `shall award interest in the judgment as prayed for or as provided by law' is mandatory, the court lacks discretion to deny interest if interest is prayed for or provided for by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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