Bates v. Lagars’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2018
10 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 Billiot v. Noble Drilling Corporation · 172 So. 2d 318 - Smith v. Foucha · Waguespack v. Savarese · Lemieux v. Leonard Construction Co. · 102 So. 2d 569 - Billiot v. Noble Drilling Corp.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he existence of the relationship, so as to fix liability on the part of one person for the acts of another, depends upon the facts and circumstances that may be established in a particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where a volunteer renders services for another under circumstances such as those shown to exist in the instant case.”
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.