Gonsoulin v. Sparrow’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 1967 · most notably Buras Ice Factory, Inc. v. Department of Highways (1958), Westwego Canal & Terminal Co. v. Pizanie (1932)
40 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 Fletcher v. Peck · McDuffie v. Walker · Soniat v. Whitmer · Jolivet v. Chaves · Vital v. Andrus
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That innocent third parties who deal on the faith of the public records are protected thereby is a question no longer open to discussion, as it is the settled jurisprudence of this state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Otis v. Texas Co.
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.