Lopez v. Bertel’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1967
5 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 Hanton v. New Orleans & C. R., Light & Power Co. · La Groue v. City of New Orleans · A. Riggs & Bro. v. Bell · Shreveport Laundries, Inc. v. Red Iron Drilling Co. · Hotard v. Perilloux
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Wherever the court below was without jurisdiction ratione materiae, we not only are authorized, but are required, to dismiss a suit even though there has been filed no pleading challenging the jurisdiction.”
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.