Savin v. Savin’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1983
16 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 Mayer v. Barrow · L. A. Frey & Sons, Inc. v. Town of Slidell · Louisiana Ice Manufacturing Co. v. City of New Orleans · Alexander v. Jackson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * if the court shall think it [is] not possible to pronounce definitely on the cause, in the state in which it is, either because the parties have failed to adduce the necessary testimony, or because the inferior court refuse to receive it, or otherwise, it may, according to circumstances, remand the cause to the lower court, with instructions as to the testimony which it shall receive, to the end that it may decide according to law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We consider it a condition precedent to the exercise of such authority that we should first determine that it is ‘not possible to pronounce definitely on the cause in the state in which it is,’ —meaning, of course, by ‘definitely’ a judgment according to conscience and the requirements of justice. It is plain that we cannot determine this question without first examining into the merits of the cause * * [ 43 La. Ann. 217 , 9 So. 22 ],”
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.