Society of the Roman Catholic Church of the Diocese of Lafayette, Inc. v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
126 F.3d 727 · 1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2015
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Southern District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Douglass v. United Services Automobile Ass'n · Delaware v. New York
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Subrogation takes place by operation of law ... In favor of an obligor who pays a debt he owes with others or for others as a result of the payment.”). 9 . La.Civ.Code art. 1826(A) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.