Speight v. Speight’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2018
4 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 McAlpine v. McAlpine · 750 So. 2d 503 - Defatta v. Defatta · 849 So. 2d 707 - Bickham v. Bickham · 689 So. 2d 478 - Daigle v. Daigle
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A spouse’s right to claim interim periodic support is based on the statutorily-imposed duty of spouses to support each other during their marriage. McAlpine v. McAlpine, 94-1594 (La.9/5/96); 679 So.2d 85 . It is designed to assist the claimant spouse in sustaining the same style or standard of living that he or she enjoyed while residing with the other spouse, pending the litigation of the divorce. Daigle v. Daigle, 96-541 (La.App. 3 Cir. 11/6/96) ; 689 So.2d 478 . Interim periodic support exists “to maintain the status quo without unnecessary economic dislocation until a determination of the amount of final support can be made, and until a period of time for adjustment elapses that does not exceed, as a general rule, one hundred eighty days after the judgment of divorce.” Defatta v. Defatta, 32,636, 32,637, p. 2 (La.App. 2 Cir. 2/1/00), 750 So.2d 503, 504-05 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“award of interim spousal support allowance shall terminate upon the rendition of a judgment of divorce .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holly v. Holly“The support should have continued in favor of Ms. Speight for one hundred eighty days[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holly v. Holly
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.