Roney v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2000
1 federal appellate · 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 Liles v. Barnhart · Morgan's Louisiana & T. R. & S. S Co. v. Stewart · State v. Chandler · Smith v. Phillips · Bickham v. Gulf Refining Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In passing upon the pleas of prescription, it is necessary to determine whether the action, as brought, is one in tort or upon a quasi contract. The form of an action is governed by the prayer of the petition. In the present case, the demand is not for damages, but for an accounting and the return of a specific sum of money received by defendant, rightly belonging to and for the benefit of plaintiffs.... "Plaintiffs having elected to sue for money had and received, and not for damages, their action is quasi contractu and is subject to the prescription of ten years. Revised Civil Code, article 3544; Smith v. Phillips, 175 La. 198 , 143 So. 47 ." 159 So. 469, 470, 471 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“He who receives what is not due to him, whether he receives it through error or knowingly, obliges himself to restore it to him from whom he has unduly received it.”
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.