Spinato v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 1987 · most notably 512 So. 2d 1165 - St. Charles Parish School Bd. v. GAF Corp. (1987), Behler v. Louisiana State Racing Commission (1968)
63 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 Pellegrin v. City of Gretna · Doss v. Board of Com'rs of Mermentau Levee Dist. · Hirt v. City of New Orleans · Jefferson 7th Ward Social Club v. Grevemberg · Navarre v. Lafayette Parish School Board
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the present case it would serve no useful purpose for this Court to determine whether the plaintiff should have been issued a liquor permit for the year 1959 for any decree which this Court would render, if we were to find merit in plaintiff's contentions, would be unenforceable. This Court will not render judgments which cannot be made effective nor will we give opinions on moot questions or abstract propositions from which no practical results can follow. * * *."”
4 later decisions 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.