Frank v. Currie’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1965
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 Kelly, Weber & Co. v. F. D. Harvey & Co. · State ex rel. State Pharmaceutical Ass'n v. Michel · O. K. Realty Co. v. John A. Juliani, Inc. · Rady v. Fire Ins. Patrol of New Orleans · Fellman v. Mercantile Fire & Marine Ins.
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.
““ * * * As we view the proviso, contained in the statute (No. 165 of 1932), it is merely permissive and is not mandatory and, while it recognizes the validity of the performance of certain legal acts on Saturday, it does not penalize those charged with such performance in the event they fail to execute them on the half holiday. It is true that Mrs. Currie might have filed her answer to the original petition on Saturday, July 29th, prior to 12 o’clock noon, when the office of the clerk of the First City Court was open, but article 1082 of the Code of Practice did not oblige her to appear and answer the petition until the third day after the service of citation. The best that can be said, if we count the Saturday half holiday, is that Mrs. Currie was allowed two and one-half days within which to file her answer, and to hold that Saturday should be counted, even though it be a half holiday under the law, would be contrary to the jurisprudence established by the cases hereinabove discussed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hebert v. Spano“By Act No. 165 of 1932, which applies to the case at bar, Saturday, from 12 o'clock noon, until 12 o'clock midnight, is designated as a half holiday, and, accordingly, it would seem to follow that, under the jurisprudence as laid down in the above-cited cases, Mrs. Currie was only granted, by the decision of the court below, two and one-half legal days within which to file her answer, whereas article 1082 of the Code of Practice allowed her three days.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) Only two days elapsed, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, between the date of service of the citation and the date of the default judgment; that, under the law, she was entitled to three full days, after the date of service of citation, before a default judgment could be taken against her; * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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