Becker v. Choate’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Carriere v. Pee Wee's Equipment Co. (1978), 980 So. 2d 843 - Ducote v. Louisiana Industries, Inc. (2008)
31 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 Mitchell v. First National Life Insurance Co. of La. · Clevy v. O'MEARA · Deardorf v. Hunter · Strickland v. American Pitch Pine Export Co. · Altom v. Mt. Vernon Oil & Gas 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While cases on this point generally state that R.S. 23:632 is subject to `equitable defenses', we are of the opinion that the word `defenses' does not mean a `defense' in the strict sense of the word. Rather, the tenor of these cases seems to indicate that the court will refuse to assess penalties and attorneys' fees where the facts of the particular case strongly indicate that greater justice will be attained by such refusal. These facts then become equitable considerations, or `defenses' in a loose sense of the word, which will move the court to deny the penalties."”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“R.S. 23:631 provides that an employer must pay an employee who has been discharged or who resigns `within twentyfour hours after such discharge or resignation * * * upon demand being made on the employer by the discharged or resigned * * * employee at the place where the employee * * * is usually paid.' And R.S. 23:632 provides penalties for the employer's failure to timely pay the wages due the employee. The penalties include up to three months' pay, plus attorney's fees.”
7 later decisions 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.