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← 144 So. 2d 667 - Leon v. Dupre

144 So. 2d 667 - Leon v. Dupre’s Empirical Analysis

1962

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 1976
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Oil Field Supply & Scrap Material Co. v. Gifford Hill & Co. · Salles v. Stafford, Derbes & Roy, Inc. · Blakesley v. Ransonet · 141 So. 2d 516 - Arkansas Fuel Oil Corporation v. Maggio · 19 La. App. 374 - Yates v. Batteford

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.

  1. “"The parties may make their own contracts, and however unusual they may be or what drastic or unreasonable features there may be therein, they form the law between them and should be enforced so long as they do not contravene good morals or public policy." (Citations omitted)”
    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.