Calhoun v. Huffman’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2016
12 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 Selber Bros. v. Newstadt's Shoe Stores · Succession of Butterworth · 151 So. 2d 557 - Shirey v. Campbell · Louisiana Oil Refining Corporation v. Williams · 30 La. Ann. 50 - Montague v. Weil & Bro.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * the effect of the voluntary conduct of a party whereby he is precluded from asserting rights against another who has justifiably relied upon such conduct and changed his position so that he will suffer injury if the former is allowed to repudiate the conduct. Founded upon good faith the doctrine is designed to prevent injustice by barring a party, under special circumstances, from taking a position contrary to his prior acts, admissions, representations, or silence. From, Montague v. Weil & Bro., 30 La.Ann. 50 ; Shirey v. Campbell, 151 So.2d 557 (La.App. 2d Cir., 1963), and citations therein."”
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.