LaFleur v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Federal Insurance Co. v. Insurance Co. of No. Amer. (1972), Importsales, Inc. v. Lindeman (1957)
26 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 Liles v. Barnhart · American Heating & Plumbing Co. v. West End Country Club · Illinois Cent. R. v. New Orleans Terminal Co. · C. W. Greeson Co. v. Harnischfeger Corp. · Kohn v. Mayor of Carrollton
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The rule is well settled that a party to a contract may have a money demand against the other party to a contract and may sue either on the tort or upon the contract at his option or election. Liles v. Barnhart, 152 La. 419 , 93 So. 490 , and authorities there cited. The character of the action determines the prescription applicable thereto. If the action is purely one in tort, then it is prescribed by one year. If the action is predicated on a breach of the contract, then it is only prescribed by ten years."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the breach of a contract by means of a tort ... furnish[es] ground for an action for breach of contract.... The measure of damages may be different for the injury caused by an act ... viewed as a breach of contract or as a tort; and, clearly, the party injured should be entitled to the one or the other action accordingly as his interest may dictate.”
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.