Mayer v. Barrow’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 1973 · most notably Herbert v. Travelers Indemnity Co. (1970), Gallagher v. Gallagher (1965)
36 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 L. A. Frey & Sons, Inc. v. Town of Slidell · Louisiana Ice Manufacturing Co. v. City of New Orleans · Culliver v. Garric · 1 La. Ann. 215 - Millaudon v. First Municipality of New Orleans
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the other hand, it has been decided that article 906 of the Code of Practice leaves the matter largely within the discretion of the appellate court, after the case has been submitted to the court for decision on its merits, to determine whether the administration of justice demands that the case should be remanded for the purpose of hearing additional evidence.”
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.