Prevost v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1971
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Rottman v. Beverly · Williams' Heirs v. Zengel · Des Allemands Lumber Co. v. Morgan City Timber Co. · Succession of Solis · Wilkinson v. Dubach Mill Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plea of `sudden emergency' may be availed of only when the party pleading it is himself free from fault and has not contributed to the creation of the emergency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chouest v. Remont
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.