Alpha v. Aucoin’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1983
9 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 Gosserand v. Monteleone · State v. Burch · United Life Accident Ins. Co. v. Haley · Lester v. Lester · Benedict v. Holmes
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"By a succession of legislative enactments with a view of relieving married women from disabilities imposed under the articles of the Civil Code, culminating in the passage of Act No. 283 of 1928, (LSA-R.S. 9:101-105) married women are now permitted to contract obligations on behalf of the community. Moreover, under the provisions of the law as it now exists, a married woman may bind herself personally for the debts of the community. See United Life & Accident Ins. Co. v. Haley et ux., 178 La. 63 , 150 So. 833 . However, it has been held in the case of Wilson & Gandy v. Cummings (La. App. Second Circuit) 150 So. 436 , that, in order to hold the wife individually liable for a community debt, the proof must be clear and convincing that it was her intention and purpose to become personally responsible."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The judgment which pronounces the separation of property, is retroactive as far back as the day on which the petition for the same was filed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tanner v. Tanner
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.