117 So. 2d 673 - Smith v. Viser’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1988
4 federal appellate · 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 Rouchon v. Rocamora · Brock Furniture Company v. Carroll · 20 So. 2d 765 - Ward v. Trimble · United Carbon Co. v. Mississippi River Fuel Corp.
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.
“"It is probable that there are no principles more elementary, more fundamental, more firmly imbedded in the law of Louisiana, and more clearly understood, than the principles that the wife is not personally liable for a community debt; that the husband is the head and master of the community, and that creditors thereof must obtain satisfaction of their claims from the husband who is individually liable for community debts, or, in certain instances, by proceeding against the community property. See LSA-C.C. Article 2403. "Though the above principles need no citation of authority, we, nonetheless, point out that this court squarely decided the issue presented in the instant case in Ward v. Trimble, La. App., 20 So.2d 765 . (Cited by the Orleans Court of Appeal in Rouchon v. Rocamora, La.App., 84 So.2d 873 , and by the First Circuit Court of Appeal in Brock Furniture Co. v. Carroll, La.App., 86 So.2d 715 )."”
3 later decisions 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.