Thibodaux v. Barrow’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 1982 · most notably Key v. Salley (1951), Vinton Oil & Sulphur Co. v. Gray (1914)
28 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 Webb v. Keller · Munholland v. Scott · Heirs of Ford v. Mills · Michel's Heirs v. Michel's Curator · Gibson v. Foster
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““True, no list of these debts had been filed, but the filing of a list of the debts for the payment of which succession property is to be ordered to be sold is required by law only in case the order for the sale of the property is to be made by the clerk, or his chief deputy, whereas the order in question in this case was made by the judge himself.” [ 129 La. 395 , 56 So. 342 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hicks v. Hughes
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.