State v. De Lavallade’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1989
18 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 Taylor v. Allen · Succession of Tyson · 33 La. Ann. 1099 - Succession of Hébert · Succession of Gravier · Murdock v. Potter
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"But in the stipulation of facts there is incorporated the record of the succession proceedings, as evidence for the trial of the exceptions. And in that record are the affidavits of four individuals swearing that Mary Lafargue always treated John B. Lafargue as her son, and that he was generally known to be her son."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Bastard, adulterous or incestuous children(,)', more properly reads: "Adulterous or incestuous bastards shall not enjoy the right,”
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.