McConnell v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably 377 So. 2d 319 - Guidry v. Theriot (1979), Thomas v. Checker Cab Co. of New Orleans, Inc. (1956)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 Hubgh v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad · Castelluccio v. Cloverland Dairy Products Co. · Roy v. Mutual Rice Co. of Louisiana, Inc. · Gabriel v. United Theatres, Inc. · 42 So. 2d 328 - Miller v. American Mut. Liability Ins. Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * And in this connection it may be well to observe at this point that it is not any of the survivors of the deceased plaintiff, named in Article 2315 of the LSA-Civil Code, who is seeking to prosecute the appeal in this case, but the widow who is appearing solely in her capacity as ad-ministratrix of his succession. Any award that might be made therefore may not go to any of the decedent’s beneficiaries under Article 2315 LSA-C.C., but to his estate and for the benefit of his creditors, if any, or any other interested parties as well as his heirs. * * * ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"because the demand of the plaintiff had been reduced to a judgment in his favor in the lower court and it was held that `this judgment, being property, necessarily formed a part of the estate transmitted by the deceased to his heirs, and was acquired by them immediately after his death.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * The statute no doubt may have its proper application in all other actions but it cannot be held to have effected a change in the rights and obligations of parties arising under substantive law and sought to be enforced in actions that are strictly personal.””
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.