Morris v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1962
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Ring v. Schilkoffsky · 24 La. Ann. 24 - Succession of Allan v. Couret · Whitehead v. Wiley · Southern Mutual Insurance v. Pike · Laplace v. Laplace
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has held that a sale of property tmder executory process without notice of demand previously served upon the debtor is an informality subject to the prescription of five years within the meaning and contemplation of Article 3543 of the Revised Civil Code. Ring v. Schilkoffsky, 158 La. 361 , 104 So. 115 . Likewise improper service or lack of service of notice of seizure has been held to be such an informality. Succession of George Allan v. Couret, 24 La.Ann. 24 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Langford v. Spencer
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.