Fleury v. Ramos’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This suit being on an alleged verbal contract for the payment of money exceeding $500, the burden of proving such contract by at least one credible witness and corroborative circumstances rests upon the plaintiff. Article 2277, R.C.C. “The trial judge found that the plaintiff had failed to meet the burden of proof to establish the alleged agreement and stated that ‘ * * * There is no proof of it in the record, except plaintiff’s own statement, which is not entirely clear as to where and when the contract was made, nor what its terms were, and that statement is specifically denied by an equally credible witness. * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McLeod v. Levy