Cook v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 1977 · most notably Chachere v. Superior Oil Co. (1939), 297 So. 2d 185 - Montgomery v. Breaux (1974)
44 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 Smith v. Chappell · Buillard v. Davis · Mecom v. Graves · Soule v. West · Berry v. Wagner
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Moreover, when the plaintiffs instituted this suit, they accepted the succession of Nancy Cook unconditionally, Rev.Civ.Code, art. 988; McQueen v. Sandel, 15 La.Ann. 140 ; Brashear v. Conner, 29 La.Ann. 347 ; Sevier v. Gordon, 29 La.Ann. 440 ; McCall v. Irion, 41 La.Ann. 1126 , 6 So. 845 ; Heirs of Ledoux v. Lavedan, 52 La.Ann. 311, 354 , 27 So. 196 ; Buillard v. Davis, 185 La. 255 , 169 So. 78 , and by such acceptance incurred the obligation of warranty of their ancestor and are now estopped from claiming title to the property. Walker v. Fort, 3 La. 535 ; Stokes v. Shackleford, 12 La. 170 ; Smith v. Elliot, 9 Rob. 3 ; Gusman v. Berryman, Man.Unrep.Cas. 199; McQueen v. Sandel, 15 La.Ann. 140 ; Sevier v. Gordon, 29 La.Ann. 440 ; Chevalley v. Pettit, 115 La. 407 , 39 So. 113 ; Cochran v. Gulf Refining Co., 139 La. 1010 , 72 So. 718 ; Berry v. Wagner, 151 La. 456 , 91 So. 837 ; Soule v. West, 185 La. 655 , 170 So. 26 ; Sparks v. Dan Cohen Co., 187 La. 830 , 175 So. 590 ; Maisonneuve v. Martin, 155 La. 938 , 99 So. 704 .” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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