189 So. 2d 752 - Lambert v. Austin Bridge Company’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1986
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Westwego Canal & Terminal Co. v. Louisiana Highway Commission · Hamilton v. City of Shreveport · 19 La. App. 628 - Orgeron v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · Dandridge v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York · De Moss v. Police Jury of Bossier Parish
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The department has all of the rights, powers, and immunities incident to corporations. It may acquire, own, administer, alienate, and otherwise dispose of all kinds of property, movable and immovable, tangible and intangible; contract; adopt, alter, or destroy an official seal; sue and be sued, implead, and be impleaded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * that the Legislature is empowered to waive the immunity of the state and its political subdivisions from both suit and liability, and further specifically provides that ‘each authorization by the Legislature for suit against the State of other such public body, heretofore and hereafter enacted or granted, shall be construed to be and shall be effective and valid for all purposes * * * as a waiver of the defendant’s immunity both from suit and from liability.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is the opinion of this Court that in view of the decision of the Louisiana Supreme Court in the Hamilton v. City of Shreveport case, supra, this Court has no alternative but to hold that the immunity formerly enjoyed by the Department of Highways under R.S. 48:22 has been effectively waived by the enactment of Article 3, Section 35 of the Constitution of 1921, as amended by Acts 1960, No. 621 * * * ””
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.