Lawrence v. Claiborne’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 1972 · most notably Little v. Haik (1964), Spiers v. Davidson (1957)
32 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 Harvey v. Richard · Scurto v. Le Blanc · Ceromi v. Harris · Locascio v. First State Bank & Trust Co. · Glover v. Abney
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * that, in the absence of any allegation of fraud or error, conditions, and stipulations beyond those expressed in an authentic act, and what may have been said before, or at the time of, or since the execution thereof, can be proven only by means of a counter-letter or by the use of interrogatories on facts and articles. Locascio v. First State Bank & Trust Co. of Hammond, 168 La. 723 , 123 So. 304 ; Plaza Amusement Co. v. Frank Rubenstein & Co., Inc., 163 La. 272 , 111 So. 702 ; Glover v. Abney, 160 La. 175 , 106 So. 735 ; Harris v. Crichton, 158 La. 358 , 104 So. 114 ; Rev.Civ.Code, arts. 2236 and 2276."”
2 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.