Roy v. Florane’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1992
8 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 Decuers v. Bourdet · 18 La. App. 387 - Wardlaw v. Conrad · Cotton v. Washburn · Ricketts v. Duble · McCormick v. Monette
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No matter what may have been the cause for divorce, excepting mutual consent, the husband or wife against whom it shall have been granted, shall lose all the advantages which the other party shall have made to him or her, whether by marriage contract or since the marriage."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Article 156 of the LSA-Civil Code is consistent with the articles of [the Code Napoleon] providing for revocation of donations in consideration of marriage for cause of ingratitude."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"In case of separation, any donation which the husband or wife may have made the one to the other, in consideration of their marriage, shall be void and without effect, ...."”
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.