Sims v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2005
1 federal appellate · 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 192 So. 2d 237 - Landry v. Landry · Commercial Nat. Bank v. Henderson · General Electric Contracts Corporation v. Murray · D'Asaro v. Sawyer
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The 1870 Code of Practice art. 96, defined a “suit” as a “demand, made before a competent judge.” In this sense, a “suit” is the same as a “civil action” under LSA-C.C.P. art. 421. We conclude that the redactors of the Code of Civil Procedure intended the word “suits” in art. 531 to be synonymous with the words “civil action” in art. 421. Under this construction, it is clear’ that a suit is pending after it has been commenced by the filing of a pleading in a court of competent jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As used in Article 531 [re lis pendens], a “suit” is the same as a “Civil Action.” LSA-C.C.P. Art. 421 ... defines a “Civil Action” as a demand for the enforcement of a legal right which is commenced by the filing of a pleading. 247 So.2d at 604 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A civil action is a demand for the enforcement of a legal right. It is commenced by the filing of a pleading presenting the demand to a court of competent jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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