Smith v. Chauvin’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is obvious that LSA-R.S. 12:39 is a penal statute and has been so recognized by the Supreme Court in Tichenor v. Tichenor, 190 La. 78 , 181 So. 863 . The Court stated that the statute ‘must be strictly construed and every doubt must be resolved against the imposition of the penalty.’ The Court found that the intent and purpose of the statute ‘was primarily to protect the investing public and necessarily the penalty is incidental to the primary object’, and that it was not the intention of the lawmakers to penalize an officer acting in good faith. “The evidence convinces us that neither the plaintiff nor the investing public suffered any loss as a result of any act of the defendant or of any failure to act; that corporate insolvency had occurred long before plaintiff made demand for a corporate statement; and that no corporate statement nor any act of the defendant could have helped plaintiff to avoid the loss suffered by corporate insolvency. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 So. 2d 691 - Leaman Corp. v. Morrison