Buras v. MacHella’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1997
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 Brown v. Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co. · 29 La. Ann. 213 - Cooper v. Cappel · Rush v. Town of Farmerville · La Groue v. City of New Orleans · 51 La. Ann. 389 - Kernan v. Humble
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“He who causes another person to do an unlawful act, or assists or encourages in the commission of it, is answerable, in solido, with that person, for the damage caused by such act.”
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.