Wells v. Goss’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1983
19 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 Lacassagne v. Chapuis · Cox v. Von Ahlefeldt · Kerwin v. Hibernia Insurance · Carroll v. Cockerham · 41 La. Ann. 474 - Tessier v. Roussel
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Article 2239 (2236). Counter letters can have no effect against creditors or bona fide purchasers; they are valid as to all others; but forced heirs shall have the same right to annul absolutely and by parol evidence the simulated contracts of those from whom they inherit, and shall not be restricted to the legitimate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phelps v. Mulhaupt
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.