White v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1991
20 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 Davis v. Arkansas Southern R. · Tripani v. Meraux · St. Julien v. Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship Co. · Becnel v. Waguespack · Pearson v. Grice
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Trespass. In all cases where any person, firm or domestic or foreign corporation shall commit trespass, or do anything for which an action for damage lies or where any domestic or foreign corporation shall fail to do anything for which an action for damage lies, such person, firm or corporation may be sued in the parish where such damage is done or trespass committed or at the domicil of such person, firm or corporation." (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A hearing on the merits is essential to determine the question of title, whereby the plaintiffs must stand or fall on proof of their own title and not upon the weakness of their adversary. Under the given circumstances of this case the exception of no right of action or lack of interest cannot be employed as a vehicle to adjudicate title to realty. The question of title to realty, when a cause of action on the face of the pleadings is legally stated, as is true in this instance, is one which must be resolved in a hearing, after issue is joined, on the merits of the controversy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘The word “trespass,” as used in the ninth paragraph of article 165 of the Code of Practice, is used in its broad sense of committing any wrongful act that injures another, and not in the technical sense of committing a trespass upon the property of another. State ex rel. Morgan’s La. & L. R. & S. S. Co. v. Judge, 33 La.Ann. 954, 955 ; Heirs of Gossin v. Williams et al., 36 La.Ann. 186, 187 ; St. Julien v. Morgan’s La. & T. R. & S. S. Co., 39 La.Ann. 1063, 1064 , 3 So. 280 ; Caldwell v. Vicksburg, S. & P. R. Co., 40 La.Ann. 753, 754 , 5 So. 17 .’" 86 So.2d at page 399 .”
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.