Seale v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1992 · most notably Breaux v. Laird (1956), Erath Sugar Company v. Broussard (1961)
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 Tremont Lumber Co. v. May · Self v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. · Coleman v. Continental Bank & Trust Co. · Kunnes v. Kogos · Lotz v. Hurwitz
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendants contend that the remand of the case to permit the plaintiff to amend his petition is, in effect, honoring an oral amendment to a petition which the law does not permit. That is just what the remand avoids. The appellate court remanded the case to enable the plaintiff to properly amend his petition, because it thought the lower court erroneously took into consideration a proposed amendment that had not been filed.”
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.