Chauvin v. La Hitte’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Hernandez v. Harson (1959), Nat Harrison Associates, Inc. v. Gulf States Utilities Co. (1974)
7 federal appellate · 38 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 Rhodes v. Collier · Brantley v. Tugwell · Griffin v. Bank of Abbeville & Trust Company · Winkler v. Ascension Bank & Trust Co. · Efner v. Ketteringham
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"But in our opinion there is error in that part of the judgment which awards to plaintiff attorney's fees of $400. On numerous occasions this court has said that ordinarily attorney's fees are not assessable as an item of damages unless provided for by law or by contract. The clear import of the language of the opinions is that no award of them can be made if not so particularly authorized. Winkler v. Ascension Bank & Trust Co., 182 La. 69 , 161 So. 23 , Efner v. Ketteringham, 217 La. 719 , 47 So.2d 331 , Brantley v. Tugwell, 223 La. 763 , 66 So. 2d 800 , and Griffin v. Bank of Abbeville & Trust Co., 228 La. 857 , 84 So.2d 437 . See also (as to the result reached) Ecuyer v. Benevolent Association of Elks, 152 La. 73 , 92 So. 739 and Davis-Wood Lumber Co. v. Canulette Shipbuilding Co., Inc., 164 La. 301 , 113 So. 855 . No statutory or codal provision specifically authorizing an award of attorney's fees in a case such as this has been called to our attention, and the sales contract under consideration does not provide for it. "Plaintiff's counsel cite in support of the claim, and the district judge evidently based his award on, Raney v. Gillen, La. App., 31 So.2d 495 and Morgan v. Patin, La.App., 47 So.2d 91 , both of which were decisions of Courts of Appeal. However, the authorities relied on in the Morgan case were disapproved by this court in Rhodes v. Collier, 215 La. 754 , 41 So.2d 669 , which was followed in Brantley v. Tugwell, supra, and also in Efner v. Ketteringham, s”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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