Sims v. Matassa’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2006
12 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 Soniat v. Whitmer · Bailey v. Williams · Chandler v. Hayden · Baldwin v. Union Insurance · 28 La. Ann. 432 - Bailey v. Quick
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the attorney fees to which she (third opponent) is entitled are those incurred by her in obtaining the release of her property from seizure and not those for the services rendered in the trial of the case after the seizure was released.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hernandez v. Harson
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.