Webster v. Harman’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1993
10 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 30 La. Ann. 511 - Lovell v. Payne · Antoine v. Smith · Pulford v. Dimmick · Calhoun v. Lane · Kleinpeter v. Harrigan
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A compromise can bear only on things doubtful and contestable. If there was the abandonment of an indisputable right (droi certain), there would be a sale or-donation. “It has been accordingly decided that a transaction can be considered to be a compromise only in so far as it has had for its object the ending or preventing of a lawsuit by reciprocal concessions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reinecke v. Pelham“to sell, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate or otherwise incumber any and all shares of stock held by [plaintiff].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adler v. Hill“pledge and hypothecate into and in favor of [defendant] forty (40) shares of ... capital stock.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adler v. Hill
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.