Cormier v. Pitre’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1981
4 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 Shreveport Long Leaf Lumber Co. v. Wilson · Lumber Products, Inc. v. Crochet · Abry Bros., Inc. v. Tillman · State Ex Rel. Pittman Bros. Const. Co. v. Watson · Pittman Bros. Const. Co. v. First Sewerage Dist.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the companion legislative Acts Nos. 246 and 248 of 1926 was to provide a method by which contractors on private and public works, by substituting surety bonds in lieu of liens recorded against their work, might obtain the release of funds held by the owners to meet the claims secured by the liens. Certainly it was not the intention of the members of the legislature in enacting those statutes for the relief of contractors that a claim against them should be secured by both a bond and a lien. If such a construction were placed upon the statutes, it would utterly destroy the purpose for which they were enacted, since it is plain that no contractor would avail himself of the right given him by law to bond a claim secured by a lien unless the giving of the bond would have the effect of removing the lien and thereby enable him to obtain payment of the amount due by the owner of the work. To effectuate the objects for which they were enacted, the statutes, one covering contracts for private work and the other contracts for public work, authorize contractors to convert claims secured by liens recorded in the clerk’s office into claims secured by bonds filed in the clerk’s office. The bonds take the place of the liens and since the lienors are protected by the bonds, no useful purpose could be served by permitting the claims recorded against the contractor to remain uncancelled on the public records.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“After an adequate bond has been furnished, as provided in that section of the Revised Statute, any party at interest has the right to have the lien cancelled from the mortgage records * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webb v. Sonnier“a bond has been substituted for this lien, and the claimant no longer has a lien or privilege which could be asserted against the property”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webb v. Sonnier
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.