Watts v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wheadon v. Turregano · 18 La. App. 492 - Simmons v. Green · People's Bank & Trust Co. v. Thibodaux · 102 So. 2d 885 - Harris Finance Corp. v. Fonte · 2 La. Ann. 835 - Union Bank v. Brewer
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a negotiable instrument is materially altered without the assent of all parties liable thereon, it is avoided, except as against a party who has himself made, authorized, or assented to the alteration, and subsequent indorsers.” N. I.L. § 124 (LSA-R.S. 7:124).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The date; (2) The sum payable, either for principal or interest; (3) The time or place of payment; (4) The number or the relations of the parties; (5) The medium or currency in which payment is to be made; Or which adds a place of payment where no place of payment is specified, or any other change or addition which alters the effect of the instrument in any respect, is material alteration.”
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.