Thomas v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1952
12 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 6 La. Ann. 700 - State v. Lougineau · 12 La. Ann. 349 - State v. Smith
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Art. 124. The rules of proceeding contained in the present title relate only to the district and parish courts of the state, when in the exercise of their ordinary jurisdiction. Special rules are hereafter established for courts of probate and justices of the peace.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If it had been shown that such judgment had been rendered, and that a certified copy had been filed in the district court, we should probably have presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the clerk had performed his duty in that respect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Achee v. Williams“The rules of practice regulating appeals to and proceedings in the Supreme Court shall apply to appeals and proceedings in the Courts of Appeal, so far as they may be applicable, until otherwise provided”
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.