Guzzo v. Liggio’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Dufrene v. Tracy (1957), 296 So. 2d 342 - Perrin v. Hellback (1974)
25 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 H. T. Cottam & Co. v. Moises · Bartley v. City of New Orleans · 16 La. Ann. 389 - State v. Cassidy
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In any event, when no time for performance of a contract is stipulated, a reasonable time is implied, to be determined by the circumstances of the particular case. See LSA-Civil Code, Article 2050; Lindsey v. Police Jury of Parish of Point Coupee, 16 La.Ann. 389 ; Bartley v. City of New Orleans, 30 La.Ann. 264 ; H. T. Cottam & Co. v. Moises, 149 La. 305 , 88 So. 916 . Moreover, the subject agreement, if serious, by its very terms necessarily implied that it was to be promptly consummated. * * *" Guzzo v. Liggio, 224 La. 313 , 69 So.2d 357, 358 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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