Lacaze v. Kelsoe’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2002
5 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 Foster & Glassell Co. v. Harrison · International Accountants Society v. Santana · Breaux v. Sarvoie · Riva's Heirs v. Bernard · J. D. Cathey, Inc. v. Henriques
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To execute voluntarily under article 2272, Rev.Civil Code, is to execute with the intention to confirm or ratify. The act from which confirmation or ratification is sought to be deduced must evince such intention clearly and unequivocally. None will be inferred where the act can be otherwise explained. In cases of doubt, the party to whom the act is opposed must have the benefit of the doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rahier v. Rester“The ratification of a contract can only be deduced from facts, when those facts evince clearly, and absolutely, the intention to ratify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rahier v. Rester
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.