Spiers v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably 616 So. 2d 1234 - Everything on Wheels Subaru, Inc. v. Subaru South, Inc. (1993), Elliott v. Dupuy (1961)
51 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 Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. Willis · Kennedy v. Perry Timber Co. · Ingersoll Corporation v. Rogers · Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. v. Louisiana Ave. Realty Co. · Dietz v. Dietz
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Counter letters can have no effect against creditors or bona fide purchasers; they are valid as to all others; but forced heirs shall have the same right to annul absolutely and by parol evidence the simulated contracts of those from whom they inherit, and shall not be restricted to the legitimate [legitime].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * [A] simulated contract is one which has no substance at all, or is purely fictitious and a sham, an act of mere pretense without reality. Such a contract, although clothed in concrete form, is entirely without effect and may be declared a sham at any time at the demand of any person in interest." [4]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““We wish to make it clear that in considering and discussing the exception of no cause of action it has not been our intention to express any opinion on the merits of this case. Whether appellant can establish by strong, convincing, and legal evidence that the act of sale was simulated remains for future determination. See Miller v. Miller, 226 La. 273 , 76 So.2d 3 ; Dietz v. Dietz, 227 La. 801 , 80 So.2d 414 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spiers v. Davidson
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.