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← 24 La. Ann. 75 - Webb v. Bell

24 La. Ann. 75 - Webb v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis

1872

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
January 1956
most recently cited

1 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 7 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1956

1 district · 3 state decisions

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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 Davock v. Darcy

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The purpose sought by separation of property and dissolution of community in this case seems to be to enable the wife, by the use of her own limited means and those she might obtain through her relatives, to earn for herself and child a support, without having her earnings fall into the community.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “for the future by putting an end to the community and thus securing to the wife her individual acquisitions or gains thereafter in whatever manner obtained.”
    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.