McDonald v. Book’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably 549 So. 2d 840 - Rosell v. Esco (1989), 252 So. 2d 137 - Hooper v. Wilkinson (1971)
28 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 Bourgeois v. Francois · 201 So. 2d 136 - Bielkiewicz v. Rudisill · Deshotels v. Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance · Loew's, Inc. v. Don George, Inc. · Satterwhite v. Zurich Insurance Company
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Evaluation of credibility is primarily within the province of the trial court. In the absence of clear improbability or other convincing demonstration of error, the appellate court should not, on review, overturn the trier of fact's acceptance of one sworn version of an accident over a contrary one, nor its evaluation of the truthfulness and reasonableness of testimony; nor is the trial court's evaluation to be ignored because a greater number of witnesses testify contrary to its conclusion. Paquin v. Stockman, La.App. 3 Cir., 203 So.2d 419 ; Satterwhite v. Zurich Insurance Co., La.App. 1 Cir., 199 So.2d 429 ; Savage v. Haynes, La.App. 3 Cir., 146 So.2d 285 . Further, and considering its opportunity for demeanor evaluation, the trial court may properly accept a witness' sworn trial version over seemingly inconsistent prior statements. Fontenot v. Fidelity General Insurance Co., La.App. 3 Cir., 185 So.2d 896 ." 215 So.2d at 396-397 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Louisiana's traditional procedural policy has disfavored the piecemeal trial of cases except where permitted by statute.”
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.