Bolding v. Eason Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2000
6 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 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Antoine Michoud v. Peronne Bernardine Girod · Jackson v. Ludeling · Palmer v. Chamberlin · State v. Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“«* * * Under LSA-C.C. art. 2278, written evidence is necessary to prove any acknowledgment or promise to pay the debt of a third person, and as a corollary, Williamson could not bind Gris- wold to pay Merrill’s debt in the absence of written authority.” (Page 891).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * Under LSA-C.C. art. 2997 the power to buy or sell must be expressed and special, and according to. well established jurisprudence, a mandate to contract to buy or sell real estate must, like the contract itself, be in writing. * * (Page 891).”
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.