Cortez v. Cortez’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1973 · most notably Graziani v. Elder & Walters Equipment Co. (1945), 49 So. 2d 658 - Courvelle v. Eckart (1950)
25 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 Lafayette v. Farr · Grant v. Succession of Grant · Bernheim v. Pessou · Knoll v. Knoll
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An exception of no cause of action urged by way of objection to evidence on the trial of the case was sustained by the court below and the main demand was dismissed as in case of nonsuit. .The trial wás then proceeded with on the reconventional demand, resulting, also, in the dismissal of that demand as in the case of nonsuit.” Cortez v. Cortez, 175 La. 179 , 143 So. 41, 42 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cortez v. Duffy““Mariano Cortez sued Katie Duffy Cortez, his wife, for a divorce, alleging that they had been living apart for more than seven years. Act No. 269 of 1916.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cortez v. Duffy
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.