Smith v. Atkins’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2000
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Soniat v. Whitmer · Rhodes v. Collier · Meraux & Nunez, Inc. v. Gaidry · Alfano v. Franek · Ludeling v. Garrett
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.
“"Where the property of a third person is illegally seized and he is forced to enjoin the seizure in order to release his property, attorney's fees may be recovered as damages. Gilkerson-Sloss Commission Company v. Yale, 47 La.Ann. 690 , 17 So. 244 ; Ludeling v. Garrett, 50 La.Ann. 118 , 23 So. 94 ; Soniat v. Whitmer, 141 La. 235 , 74 So. 916 ; Alfano v. Franek, 159 La. 498 , 105 So. 598 ."”
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.