Thompson v. Gallien’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.2d 664 · 1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1978
5 federal appellate · 5 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 Callender v. Marks · Vernon v. Illinois Cent. R. · Flower v. O'Connor · 10 La. App. 382 - Matthews v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co. · 15 La. App. 589 - Myers v. Gulf Public Service 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the limitation imposed by Article 2315 has been held to be peremptive rather than prescriptive, the courts of the state in several instances have held the limitation to be interrupted in cases of peremption and prescription alike, under circumstances and in language indicating that the filing of suit interrupts the running of the limitation without regard to whether it is peremptive or prescriptive. Moreover, Act 39 relates to `prescriptions affecting the cause of action.' Since peremption affects the cause of action and prescription only affects the remedy, it may well be that the legislature intended by this Act to apply the same principle of law to peremptions that the courts long had been applying to prescriptions, thereby erasing any distinction between them in this regard.”
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.